Docker is a really cool framework that lets you put different parts of your applications in containers which are much smaller faster lighterweight things that are sort of similar to a VM. You can learn more about containers and docker specifically at the "What is Docker" page

ColdFusion is two things - a server created by Adobe Inc. This server parses and serves pages written in one of two dialects of ColdFusion - CFML (markup language) and CFSCRIPT (script).

There are some open source competitors to Adobe ColdFusion server such as Railo and BlueDragon. This container provides a linux based installation of Adobe's ColdFusion Server 9.0.2.

ColdFusion 9 as Docker image on Ubuntu 14.04.

If you are on a VM or something and you need to download the coldfusion binary and patch files from a local file server update prepare.sh and then run it.

./prepare.sh

Once you have the CF binary and patches in the /install/build direcotry you can build the Docker container:

docker build -t cf9 .

And run it with:

docker run -d -p 8880:80 -v /var/www:/var/www cf9

This is entirely based on the work found at https://github.com/naag/docker-coldfusion11 and https://github.com/finalcut/docker-coldfusion10

The silent installation of ColdFusion is accomplished with a ./build/install/installer.profile file. The syntax for that file is described in this [Adobe blog post](: http:https://blogs.adobe.com/cfdoc/2009/10/performing_a_silent_installation_of_coldfusion_9.html).

The CF installation script was written by Jan Ruusuvuori and seems to only exist in this forum post.

1. The admin password for the coldfusion server is Adm1n$
2. You can't access the cf-admin interface from the web. You need to use the CF Admin API
3. You can learn more about the coldfusion installation by looking in ./build/install/installer.profile
4. Finally, I map port 80 on the CF server to port 8880 and I have it in the usage instructions here to make it easier for me to copy paste. Use whatever port mapping works for you.