Upgrade your EJBCA Docker container to the latest version

In this guide, you will learn how to upgrade your EJBCA container installation in a few minutes without worrying about complex update procedures or dependencies.

This guide demonstrates how to:

Easily upgrade the EJBCA container running on Docker to the latest version
Edit the docker-compose file to update the EJBCA version to use
Understand the process of upgrading the EJBCA container

Simplified deployment and upgrade with EJBCA Docker container

About EJBCA Docker Container... – Click to learn more

With EJBCA in a Docker container, you can deploy and upgrade it quickly without worrying about complex installation procedures or dependencies such as Java, Database drivers, Wildfly application server, Alma Linux, etc. An installation of EJBCA requires all of these components and the container has all of these dependencies installed and configured.

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Prerequisites

For this guide, the EJBCA Community Docker container version 7.11.0 was used and upgraded to 8.1.0 Beta.

Before you begin, you need:

A running EJBCA instance - Click to learn more

If you don’t already have EJBCA installed, here are some options for you:

Download EJBCA - Free and open-source EJBCA Community version
- There are guides to help you, for example, see this one on how to run the EJBCA Docker container: Quick Start EJBCA Container with Client Certificate Authenticated Access.
Try on AWS - Free 30-day trial EJBCA Cloud on AWS
Try on Azure - Free 30-day trial EJBCA Cloud on Azure

EJBCA deployed and running on Docker.
In this guide, EJBCA was configured according to the guides listed in Get started with EJBCA and issue TLS certificates.
Internet access to pull the new EJBCA container.

It is also good if you are:

Familiar with a text editor to edit the docker-compose file.
Familiar with mariadb dump or mysqldump to backup the database.

Next steps

In this guide, you learned how to upgrade your EJBCA Docker container to the latest version.

Here are some next steps we recommend:

Download the EJBCA Docker container from DockerHub.
To start the EJBCA Docker container and do basic PKI configuration, see Get started with EJBCA and issue TLS certificates.

If you are interested in EJBCA Enterprise, read more on Keyfactor EJBCA Enterprise.

If you are interested in EJBCA Community, check out EJBCA Community vs Enterprise or read more on ejbca.org.
If you are an EJBCA Enterprise customer and need support, visit the Keyfactor Support Portal.
Discuss with the EJBCA Community on GitHub Discussions.

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