bitnami-containers/bitnami/parse-dashboard

Bitnami Secure Image for Parse Dashboard

What is Parse Dashboard?

Parse Dashboard is a standalone dashboard for managing your Parse apps. You can use it to manage your Parse Server apps.

Overview of Parse Dashboard 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 parse-dashboard bitnami/parse-dashboard:latest

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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Prerequisites

To run this application you need Docker Engine 1.10.0.

How to use this image

Run the application manually

If you want to run the application manually instead of using the Helm chart, these are the basic steps you need to run:

1. Create a network for the application, Parse Server and the database:

   docker network create parse_dashboard-tier
   

2. Start a MongoDB® database in the network generated:

   docker run -d --name mongodb --net=parse_dashboard-tier bitnami/mongodb
   

   Note: You need to give the container a name in order to Parse to resolve the host.

3. Start a Parse Server container:

   docker run -d -p 1337:1337 --name parse --net=parse_dashboard-tier bitnami/parse
   

4. Run the Parse Dashboard container:

   docker run -d -p 80:4040 --name parse-dashboard --net=parse_dashboard-tier bitnami/parse-dashboard
   

   Then you can access your application at http://your-ip/

Persisting your application

If you remove the container all your data and configurations 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 volume at the /bitnami path. Additionally you should mount a volume for the persistence of MongoDB® and Parse data.

The above examples define docker volumes namely mongodb_data, parse_data and parse_dashboard_data. The application state will persist as long as these volumes are not removed.

To avoid inadvertent removal of these volumes you can mount host directories as data volumes. Alternatively you can make use of volume plugins to host the volume data.

Mount host directories as data volumes using the Docker command line

In this case you need to specify the directories to mount on the run command. The process is the same than the one previously shown:

1. Create a network (if it does not exist):

   docker network create parse_dashboard-tier
   

2. Create a MongoDB® container with host volume:

   docker run -d --name mongodb \
     --net parse-dashboard-tier \
     --volume /path/to/mongodb-persistence:/bitnami \
     bitnami/mongodb:latest
   

   Note: You need to give the container a name in order to Parse to resolve the host.

3. Start a Parse Server container:

   docker run -d -name parse -p 1337:1337 \
     --net parse-dashboard-tier
     --volume /path/to/parse-persistence:/bitnami \
     bitnami/parse:latest
   

4. Run the Parse Dashboard container:

   docker run -d --name parse-dashboard -p 80:4040 \
   --volume /path/to/parse_dashboard-persistence:/bitnami \
   bitnami/parse-dashboard:latest
   

Upgrade this application

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

1. Get the updated images:

   docker pull bitnami/parse-dashboard:latest
   

2. Stop your container

   • $ docker stop parse-dashboard

3. Take a snapshot of the application state

   rsync -a /path/to/parse-persistence /path/to/parse-persistence.bkp.$(date +%Y%m%d-%H.%M.%S)
   

   Additionally, snapshot the MongoDB® and Parse server data.

   You can use these snapshots to restore the application state should the upgrade fail.

4. Remove the currently running container

   • $ docker rm parse-dashboard

5. Run the new image

   • Mount the directories if needed: docker run --name parse-dashboard bitnami/parse-dashboard:latest

Configuration

Environment variables

Customizable environment variables

Name	Description	Default Value
PARSE_DASHBOARD_FORCE_OVERWRITE_CONF_FILE	Force the config.json config file generation.	no
PARSE_DASHBOARD_ENABLE_HTTPS	Whether to enable HTTPS for Parse Dashboard by default.	no
PARSE_DASHBOARD_EXTERNAL_HTTP_PORT_NUMBER	External HTTP port for Parse Dashboard.	80
PARSE_DASHBOARD_EXTERNAL_HTTPS_PORT_NUMBER	External HTTPS port for Parse Dashboard.	443
PARSE_DASHBOARD_PARSE_HOST	Parse host name.	parse
PARSE_DASHBOARD_PORT_NUMBER	Port number in which Parse Dashboard will run.	4040
PARSE_DASHBOARD_PARSE_PORT_NUMBER	Parse server port number.	1337
PARSE_DASHBOARD_PARSE_APP_ID	A sample string environment variable.	myappID
PARSE_DASHBOARD_APP_NAME	Parse Dashboard App name.	MyDashboard
PARSE_DASHBOARD_PARSE_MASTER_KEY	Parse server master key.	mymasterKey
PARSE_DASHBOARD_PARSE_MOUNT_PATH	Parse Dashboard mount path.	/parse
PARSE_DASHBOARD_PARSE_PROTOCOL	Parse server protocol.	http
PARSE_DASHBOARD_USERNAME	Parse Dashboard user name.	user
PARSE_DASHBOARD_PASSWORD	Parse Dashboard user password.	bitnami

Read-only environment variables

Name	Description	Value
PARSE_DASHBOARD_BASE_DIR	Parse installation directory.	${BITNAMI_ROOT_DIR}/parse-dashboard
PARSE_DASHBOARD_TMP_DIR	Parse temp directory.	${PARSE_DASHBOARD_BASE_DIR}/tmp
PARSE_DASHBOARD_LOGS_DIR	Parse logs directory.	${PARSE_DASHBOARD_BASE_DIR}/logs
PARSE_DASHBOARD_PID_FILE	Parse PID file.	${PARSE_DASHBOARD_TMP_DIR}/parse-dashboard.pid
PARSE_DASHBOARD_LOG_FILE	Parse logs file.	${PARSE_DASHBOARD_LOGS_DIR}/parse-dashboard.log
PARSE_DASHBOARD_CONF_FILE	Configuration file for Parse Dashboard.	${PARSE_DASHBOARD_BASE_DIR}/config.json
PARSE_DASHBOARD_VOLUME_DIR	Parse directory for mounted configuration files.	${BITNAMI_VOLUME_DIR}/parse-dashboard
PARSE_DASHBOARD_DAEMON_USER	Parse system user.	parsedashboard
PARSE_DASHBOARD_DAEMON_GROUP	Parse system group.	parsedashboard

When you start the parse-dashboard image, you can adjust the configuration of the instance by passing one or more environment variables on the docker run command line. If you want to add a new environment variable:

parse-dashboard:
  ...
  environment:
    - PARSE_DASHBOARD_PASSWORD=my_password
  ...

• For manual execution add a -e option with each variable and value:

 docker run -d -e PARSE_DASHBOARD_PASSWORD=my_password -p 80:4040 --name parse-dashboard -v /your/local/path/bitnami/parse_dashboard:/bitnami --network=parse_dashboard-tier bitnami/parse-dashboard

FIPS configuration in Bitnami Secure Images

The Bitnami Parse Dashboard 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.

Notable Changes

Starting January 16, 2024

• The docker-compose.yaml file has been removed, as it was solely intended for internal testing purposes.

2.1.0-debian-10-r328

• The size of the container image has been decreased.
• The configuration logic is now based on Bash scripts in the rootfs/ folder.

1.2.0-r69

• The Parse Dashboard container has been migrated to a non-root user approach. Previously the container ran as the root user and the Parse Dashboard daemon was started as the parsedashboard user. From now on, both the container and the Parse Dashboard daemon run as user 1001. As a consequence, the data directory must be writable by that user. You can revert this behavior by changing USER 1001 to USER root in the Dockerfile.

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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