How to configure Bamboo docker container to avoid first-time-setup pages

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Summary

Trying to set up a bamboo-server using Atlassian official docker image, and avoiding the first-time-setup.

Solution

Customers can use the ATL_BAMBOO_ENABLE_UNATTENDED_SETUP flag.

This method is normally used with our kubernetes solution, but can still work as a standalone strategy.

Please check the source code of the docker image's entrypoint.py to know more.

Please use the below sample docker run command with predefined and harcoded values and it skips the first-time-setup-page

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 docker run \ -e ATL_BAMBOO_ENABLE_UNATTENDED_SETUP='true' \ -e ATL_BAMBOO_SKIP_CONFIG='true' \ -e ATL_BAMBOO_DISABLE_AGENT_AUTH='true' \ -e ATL_LICENSE="*****" \ -e ATL_BASE_URL="localhost" \ -e ATL_ADMIN_USERNAME='admin' \ -e ATL_ADMIN_PASSWORD='****' \ -e ATL_ADMIN_FULLNAME='admin' \ -e ATL_ADMIN_EMAIL='admin@admin.admin' \ -e ATL_IMPORT_OPTION='clean' \ -e JVM_MINIMUM_MEMORY=2048m \ -e JVM_MAXIMUM_MEMORY=2048m \ -e ATL_DB_TYPE='h2' \ --name="local-bamboo" \ --detach \ --publish 8085:8085 \ --publish 54663:54663 \ atlassian/bamboo:latest

Please note

The last argument specifies the Bamboo server version. In the above run command it will spin up a container with latest Bamboo version. For specific version you can edit it like atlassian/bamboo:8.0.3

Updated on April 11, 2025

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