docker-documentation/images/docker-clarkson.md

linuxserver/clarkson

Clarkson is a web-based dashboard application that gives you a neat and clean interface for logging your fuel fill-ups for all of your vehicles. The application has full multi-user support, as well as multiple vehicles per user. Whenever you fill-up your car or motorcycle, keep the receipt and record the data in Clarkson.

Supported Architectures

Our images support multiple architectures such as x86-64, arm64 and armhf. We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here and our announcement here.

Simply pulling linuxserver/clarkson should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.

The architectures supported by this image are:

Architecture	Tag
x86-64	amd64-latest
arm64	arm64v8-latest
armhf	arm32v6-latest

Usage

Here are some example snippets to help you get started creating a container from this image.

docker

docker create \
  --name=clarkson \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e MYSQL_HOST=<mysql_host> \
  -e MYSQL_USERNAME=<mysql_username> \
  -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=<mysql_password> \
  -e ENABLE_REGISTRATIONS=<true|false> \
  -e TZ=Europe/London \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  linuxserver/clarkson

docker-compose

Compatible with docker-compose v2 schemas.

---
version: "2"
services:
  clarkson:
    image: linuxserver/clarkson
    container_name: clarkson
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - MYSQL_HOST=<mysql_host>
      - MYSQL_USERNAME=<mysql_username>
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=<mysql_password>
      - ENABLE_REGISTRATIONS=<true|false>
      - TZ=Europe/London
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
    restart: unless-stopped

Parameters

Docker images are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.

Ports (-p)

Parameter	Function
3000	WebUI

Environment Variables (-e)

Env	Function
PUID=1000	for UserID - see below for explanation
PGID=1000	for GroupID - see below for explanation
MYSQL_HOST=<mysql_host>	Points the backend to the MySQL database. This can be either a docker hostname or an IP.
MYSQL_USERNAME=<mysql_username>	The user with access to the clarkson schema.
MYSQL_PASSWORD=<mysql_password>	The password for the user.
`ENABLE_REGISTRATIONS=<true	false>`
TZ=Europe/London	Specify a timezone to use EG Europe/London.

Volume Mappings (-v)

Volume	Function

User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes (-v flags), permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.

Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.

In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id user as below:

  $ id username
    uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)

Application Setup

Please ensure MySQL is running before starting this container.

It is preferred if you create the clarkson schema before initially running the container, then creating a user with granted permissions for the schema. Creating the schema before running the app is important as the "clarkson" user will not have permission to create the schema on your behalf. You can, of course, use the "root" user, which has the ability to create schemas automatically, but this is not recommended.

CREATE SCHEMA `clarkson`;
CREATE USER 'clarkson_user' IDENTIFIED BY 'supersecretpassword';
GRANT ALL ON `clarkson`.* TO 'clarkson_user';

Once running, the container will run an initial MySQL migration, which populates the schema with all tables and procedures. The application will start immediately afterwards. You will need to register an initial user, of which will be the admin of the application. All subsequent users will be standard users. You can disable registrations after the fact by recreating the container with the ENABLE_REGISTRATIONS flag set to false. This will not hide the "Register" link, but will disable the functionality.

Support Info

• Shell access whilst the container is running:
  • docker exec -it clarkson /bin/bash
• To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:
  • docker logs -f clarkson
• Container version number
  • docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' clarkson
• Image version number
  • docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' linuxserver/clarkson

Versions

• 22.02.19: - Rebasing to alpine 3.9.
• 11.02.19: - Add pipeline logic and multi arch.
• 22.08.18: - Rebase to alpine linux 3.8.
• 19.02.18: - Initial Release.