bitnami-containers/bitnami/ejbca

Bitnami Secure Image for EJBCA

What is EJBCA?

EJBCA is an enterprise class PKI Certificate Authority software, built using Java (JEE) technology.

Overview of EJBCA Trademarks: This software listing is packaged by Bitnami. The respective trademarks mentioned in the offering are owned by the respective companies, and use of them does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.

TL;DR

docker run --name ejbca bitnami/ejbca:latest

Warning: This quick setup is only intended for development environments. You are encouraged to change the insecure default credentials and check out the available configuration options in the Configuration section for a more secure deployment.

Why use Bitnami Secure Images?

Those are hardened, minimal CVE images built and maintained by Bitnami. Bitnami Secure Images are based on the cloud-optimized, security-hardened enterprise OS Photon Linux. Why choose BSI images?

• Hardened secure images of popular open source software with Near-Zero Vulnerabilities
• Vulnerability Triage & Prioritization with VEX Statements, KEV and EPSS Scores
• Compliance focus with FIPS, STIG, and air-gap options, including secure bill of materials (SBOM)
• Software supply chain provenance attestation through in-toto
• First class support for the internet’s favorite Helm charts

Each image comes with valuable security metadata. You can view the metadata in our public catalog here. Note: Some data is only available with commercial subscriptions to BSI.

If you are looking for our previous generation of images based on Debian Linux, please see the Bitnami Legacy registry.

Why use a non-root container?

Non-root container images add an extra layer of security and are generally recommended for production environments. However, because they run as a non-root user, privileged tasks are typically off-limits. Learn more about non-root containers in our docs.

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags in our documentation page.

You can see the equivalence between the different tags by taking a look at the tags-info.yaml file present in the branch folder, i.e bitnami/ASSET/BRANCH/DISTRO/tags-info.yaml.

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Get this image

The recommended way to get the Bitnami EJBCA Docker Image is to pull the prebuilt image from the Docker Hub Registry.

docker pull bitnami/ejbca:latest

To use a specific version, you can pull a versioned tag. You can view the list of available versions in the Docker Hub Registry.

docker pull bitnami/ejbca:[TAG]

If you wish, you can also build the image yourself by cloning the repository, changing to the directory containing the Dockerfile and executing the docker build command. Remember to replace the APP, VERSION and OPERATING-SYSTEM path placeholders in the example command below with the correct values.

git clone https://github.com/bitnami/containers.git
cd bitnami/APP/VERSION/OPERATING-SYSTEM
docker build -t bitnami/APP:latest .

How to use this image

EJBCA requires access to a MySQL or MariaDB database to store information. We'll use our very own MariaDB image for the database requirements.

Using the Docker Command Line

Step 1: Create a network

docker network create ejbca-network

Step 2: Create a volume for MariaDB persistence and create a MariaDB container

$ docker volume create --name mariadb_data
docker run -d --name mariadb \
  --env ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes \
  --env MARIADB_USER=bn_ejbca \
  --env MARIADB_PASSWORD=Bitnami1234 \
  --env MARIADB_DATABASE=bitnami_ejbca \
  --network ejbca-network \
  --volume mariadb_data:/bitnami/mariadb \
  bitnami/mariadb:latest

Step 3: Create volumes for EJBCA persistence and launch the container

$ docker volume create --name ejbca_data
docker run -d --name ejbca \
  -p 8080:8080 -p 8443:8443 \
  --env ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes \
  --env EJBCA_DATABASE_USERNAME=bn_ejbca \
  --env EJBCA_DATABASE_PASSWORD=Bitnami1234 \
  --env EJBCA_DATABASE_HOST=mariadb \
  --env EJBCA_DATABASE_NAME=bitnami_ejbca \
  --network ejbca-network \
  --volume ejbca_data:/bitnami/wildfly \
  bitnami/ejbca:latest

Access your application at http://your-ip:8080/ejbca/

Run the application using Docker Compose

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitnami/containers/main/bitnami/ejbca/docker-compose.yml > docker-compose.yml
docker-compose up -d

Please be aware this file has not undergone internal testing. Consequently, we advise its use exclusively for development or testing purposes. For production-ready deployments, we highly recommend utilizing its associated Bitnami Helm chart.

If you detect any issue in the docker-compose.yaml file, feel free to report it or contribute with a fix by following our Contributing Guidelines.

Persisting your application

If you remove the container all your data will be lost, and the next time you run the image the database will be reinitialized. To avoid this loss of data, you should mount a volume that will persist even after the container is removed.

For persistence you should mount a directory at the /bitnami/wildfly path. If the mounted directory is empty, it will be initialized on the first run.

docker run \
    -v /path/to/ejbca-persistence:/bitnami/wildfly \
    bitnami/ejbca:latest

You can also do this with a minor change to the docker-compose.yml file present in this repository:

   ejbca:
     ...
     volumes:
-      - wildfly_data:/bitnami/wildfly
+      - /path/to/ejbca-persistence:/bitnami/wildfly
   ...
-volumes:
-  ejbca_data:
-    driver: local

Configuration

Environment variables

Customizable environment variables

Name	Description	Default Value
EJBCA_WILDFLY_ADMIN_USER	Wildfly admin user	admin
EJBCA_WILDFLY_ADMIN_PASSWORD	Wildfly admin password	nil
EJBCA_SERVER_CERT_FILE	Server cert file	nil
EJBCA_SERVER_CERT_PASSWORD	Server cert file password.	nil
EJBCA_HTTP_PORT_NUMBER	Wildfly http port number	8080
EJBCA_HTTPS_PORT_NUMBER	Wilfly https port number	8443
EJBCA_HTTPS_ADVERTISED_PORT_NUMBER	Rendered port for administrator login URL	$EJBCA_HTTPS_PORT_NUMBER
EJBCA_ADMIN_USERNAME	EJBCA administrator username	superadmin
EJBCA_ADMIN_PASSWORD	EJBCA administrator password.	Bitnami1234
EJBCA_DATABASE_FLAVOR	EJBCA database flavor	mariadb
EJBCA_DATABASE_HOST	Database hostname	nil
EJBCA_DATABASE_PORT	Database port number.	3306
EJBCA_DATABASE_NAME	EJBCA database name.	nil
EJBCA_DATABASE_USERNAME	EJBCA database username.	nil
EJBCA_DATABASE_PASSWORD	EJBCA database password.	nil
EJBCA_CA_NAME	CA name.	ManagementCA
JAVA_OPTS	JVM options	-Xms2048m -Xmx2048m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dhibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect -Dhibernate.dialect.storage_engine=innodb
EJBCA_SMTP_HOST	SMTP hostname	localhost
EJBCA_SMTP_PORT	SMTP port	25
EJBCA_SMTP_FROM_ADDRESS	SMTP from address	user@example.com
EJBCA_SMTP_TLS	SMTP enable TLS	false
EJBCA_SMTP_USERNAME	SMTP username	nil
EJBCA_SMTP_PASSWORD	SMTP password	nil

Read-only environment variables

Name	Description	Value
BITNAMI_VOLUME_DIR	Directory where to mount volumes.	/bitnami
EJBCA_BASE_DIR	EJBCA installation directory.	${BITNAMI_ROOT_DIR}/ejbca
EJBCA_BIN_DIR	EJBCA directory for binary executables.	${EJBCA_BASE_DIR}/bin
EJBCA_CONF_DIR	EJBCA directory for configuration files.	${EJBCA_BASE_DIR}/conf
EJBCA_DEFAULT_CONF_DIR	EJBCA directory for default configuration files.	${EJBCA_BASE_DIR}/conf.default
EJBCA_TMP_DIR	EJBCA directory for temp files.	${EJBCA_BASE_DIR}/tmp
EJBCA_INITSCRIPTS_DIR	EJBCA directory for init scripts.	/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
EJBCA_DATABASE_SCRIPTS_DIR	EJBCA directory for database scripts.	${EJBCA_BASE_DIR}/sql-scripts
EJBCA_VOLUME_DIR	EJBCA persistence directory.	${BITNAMI_VOLUME_DIR}/ejbca
EJBCA_WILDFLY_VOLUME_DIR	EJBCA Wildlfy persistence directory.	${BITNAMI_VOLUME_DIR}/wildfly
EJBCA_DATA_DIR	EJBCA data directory.	${EJBCA_VOLUME_DIR}/tls
EJBCA_DB_SCRIPT_INDEXES	EJBCA database tables creation script.	${EJBCA_DATABASE_SCRIPTS_DIR}/create-index-ejbca.sql
EJBCA_DB_SCRIPT_TABLES	EJBCA database indexes creation script.	${EJBCA_DATABASE_SCRIPTS_DIR}/create-tables-ejbca-mysql.sql
EJBCA_EAR_FILE	EJBCA application deployment file.	${EJBCA_BASE_DIR}/dist/ejbca.ear
EJBCA_WILDFLY_BASE_DIR	Wildfly base directory.	${BITNAMI_ROOT_DIR}/wildfly
EJBCA_WILDFLY_STANDALONE_DIR	Wildfly standalone directory.	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_BASE_DIR}/standalone
EJBCA_WILDFLY_DEFAULT_STANDALONE_DIR	Wildfly default standalone directory.	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_BASE_DIR}/standalone.default
EJBCA_WILDFLY_DOMAIN_DIR	Wildfly domain directory.	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_BASE_DIR}/domain
EJBCA_WILDFLY_DEFAULT_DOMAIN_DIR	Wildfly default domain directory.	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_BASE_DIR}/domain.default
EJBCA_WILDFLY_TMP_DIR	Wildfly temporal directory	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_BASE_DIR}/tmp
EJBCA_WILDFLY_BIN_DIR	Wildfly bin directory	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_BASE_DIR}/bin
EJBCA_WILDFLY_CONF_DIR	Wildfly configuration directory	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_STANDALONE_DIR}/configuration
EJBCA_WILDFLY_PID_DIR	Wildlfy directory to hold PID file	${EJBCA_TMP_DIR}
EJBCA_WILDFLY_PID_FILE	Wildfly PID file	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_PID_DIR}/wildfly.pid
EJBCA_WILDFLY_DEPLOY_DIR	Wildfly deployment directory.	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_STANDALONE_DIR}/deployments
EJBCA_WILDFLY_TRUSTSTORE_FILE	Wildfly truststore file	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_CONF_DIR}/truststore.jks
EJBCA_WILDFLY_KEYSTORE_FILE	Wildfly keystore file	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_CONF_DIR}/keystore.jks
EJBCA_WILDFLY_STANDALONE_CONF_FILE	Wildfly standalone configuration file	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_BIN_DIR}/standalone.conf
EJBCA_WILDFLY_STANDALONE_XML_FILE	Wildfly standalone configuration file	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_CONF_DIR}/standalone.xml
EJBCA_DAEMON_USER	Wildfly system user.	wildfly
EJBCA_DAEMON_GROUP	Wildfly system group	wildfly
EJBCA_WILDFLY_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD_FILE	File to store the keystore password	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_TMP_DIR}/keystore.pwd
EJBCA_WILDFLY_TRUSTSTORE_PASSWORD_FILE	File to store the truststore password	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_TMP_DIR}/truststore.pwd
EJBCA_WILDFLY_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE	File to store the wildfly admin password	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_TMP_DIR}/wildfly_admin.pwd
EJBCA_TEMP_CERT	Temporary cert file	${EJBCA_TMP_DIR}/cacert.der
EJBCA_HOME	EJBCA home.	${EJBCA_BASE_DIR}
JAVA_HOME	Java home.	/opt/bitnami/java
JBOSS_HOME	Jboss home	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_BASE_DIR}
LAUNCH_JBOSS_IN_BACKGROUND	Run jboss in background	true
JBOSS_PIDFILE	Wildfly PID file	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_PID_FILE}
EJBCA_WILDFLY_DATA_TO_PERSIST	EJBCA data to persist.	${EJBCA_WILDFLY_CONF_DIR},${EJBCA_WILDFLY_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE},${EJBCA_WILDFLY_BASE_DIR}/standalone/data,${EJBCA_WILDFLY_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD_FILE},${EJBCA_WILDFLY_TRUSTSTORE_PASSWORD_FILE}

FIPS configuration in Bitnami Secure Images

The Bitnami EJBCA Docker image from the Bitnami Secure Images catalog includes extra features and settings to configure the container with FIPS capabilities. You can configure the next environment variables:

• OPENSSL_FIPS: whether OpenSSL runs in FIPS mode or not. yes (default), no.

Logging

The Bitnami EJBCA Docker image sends the container logs to stdout. To view the logs:

docker logs ejbca

You can configure the containers logging driver using the --log-driver option if you wish to consume the container logs differently. In the default configuration docker uses the json-file driver.

Custom scripts

The Bitnami EJBCA Docker image contains functions to execute any shell scripts after startup. These scripts are executed during the initialization of the EJBCA Wildfly installation.

You can add custom script into the /docker-entrypoint-init.d directory. All files in the directory will be executed using bash.

Maintenance

Upgrade this image

Bitnami provides up-to-date versions of EJBCA, including security patches, soon after they are made upstream. We recommend that you follow these steps to upgrade your container.

Step 1: Get the updated image

docker pull bitnami/ejbca:latest

Step 2: Stop the running container

Stop the currently running container using the command

docker stop ejbca

Step 3: Remove the currently running container

docker rm -v ejbca

Step 4: Run the new image

Re-create your container from the new image.

docker run --name ejbca bitnami/ejbca:latest

Notable Changes

7.4.3-2-debian-10-r68

The persistence has been refactorized and the volume mount point was moved from /bitnami/ejbca to /bitnami/wildfly.

In previous versions only password files were persisted, making the container was unable to restart. The initialization logic has been changed as well as the persisted data directories. The Wildlfy configuration and data directories are now persisted, making the container able to automatically restart. The time that the container takes to restart has also been improved. Due to the mentioned changes, the automatic upgrade from previous image versions is not supported and requires a manual migration.

Contributing

We'd love for you to contribute to this container. You can request new features by creating an issue or submitting a pull request with your contribution.

Issues

If you encountered a problem running this container, you can file an issue. For us to provide better support, be sure to fill the issue template.

License

Copyright © 2025 Broadcom. The term "Broadcom" refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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