Zabbix stack with docker-compose.yml

2018-03-15 17:14

Greg Stencel

Fully working zabbix server solution with UI and database in seconds

I wanted to install zabbix server quickly with docker but amount of zabbix images (created by zabbix) on dockerhub just overwhelmed me. To set up running zabbix server we need 3 images * choice of sql DB * zabbix-web - web interface * zabbix-server - main zabbix process responsible for polling and trapping data and sending notifications to users.

My choice of database was MySQL so I created docker-compose file to have full stack of running zabbix server:

Notice(you may want to use alpine versions for production env) docker-compose.yml:

version: '3'

services:
  db:
    image: mysql:latest
    restart: always
    expose:
      - '3336'
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'my_secret_password'
      MYSQL_USER: 'zabbixuser'
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'zabbixpass'
      MYSQL_ROOT_HOST: '%'
    volumes:
      - 'mysql_data_dir:/var/lib/mysql'


  zabbix-server:
    image: zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql
    links:
      - "db:mysql"
      - "postfix:postfix"
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'my_secret_password'
      MYSQL_USER: 'zabbixuser'
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'zabbixpass'
      DB_SERVER_HOST: 'mysql'


  zabbix-web:
    image: zabbix/zabbix-web-nginx-mysql
    ports:
      - '7777:80'
    links:
      - "db:mysql"
      - "zabbix-server:zabbix-server"
      - "postfix:postfix"
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'secret'
      MYSQL_USER: 'zabbixuser'
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'myzabbixpass'
      DB_SERVER_HOST: 'mysql'
      ZBX_SERVER_HOST: "zabbix-server"
      PHP_TZ: "Europe/London"
  postfix:
    image: catatnight/postfix
    hostname: support
    environment:
      - maildomain=domain.com
      - smtp_user=admin:password
    ports:
      - "25:25"
    #  - "465:465"
    #  - "587:587"
    expose:
      - "25"
    #  - "465"
    #  - "587"
    volumes:
      - /etc/nginx/ssl/postfix:/etc/postfix/certs
      - /etc/nginx/ssl/postfix:/etc/opendkim/domainkeys
volumes:
  mysql_data_dir:
    driver: local

      #- ./deployment/config_files/main-postfix-live.cf:/etc/postfix/main.cf
    #networks:
    #  - backend
    #entrypoint: /docker-entrypoint.sh

The above solution is just enough to start zabbix server up and running in couple seconds. To run it just put yml file into some directory (directory is important as volume created for mysql will have this dir name as prefix) volumes are usually stored in /var/lib/docker/volumes and run:

sudo docker-compose up

Thats it!!! You now have your zabbix running on port 7777

So what happened here docker-compose up has build and runned 3 containers by running zabbix container it discovered there are no tables in mysql and has built them.

Now you just need to add agents/servers you want to monitor. Check out adding agent in separate post [here]

Versions: (versions I've used in this example Feb 2018):

Docker-compose: 1.17.0, build ac53b73 Docker: 17.09.1-ce, build 19e2cf6 Kernel: 4.13.0-36-generic

Fully working zabbix server solution with UI and database in seconds

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