Recently I have came across need of having IP address management tool. So I have looked at several options and decided that the best one was phpIPAM for 2 main reasons:

• API
• Overlapping subnets

Also the look and feel gives me positive feeling about the product and the fact there is a lot of development being done on github.

Using docker to run the application

So I have decided to prepare fully operational docker solution to support this application. Learned on previous mistakes github repository to which I will be referring you to have been accordingly tagged so if any changes occur – you will always be able to follow this post directions.

 

 

I would like to avoid duplication of information. Therefore I will just highlight one of possible installation options as rest is mentioned on docker hub and on github.

 

We start of with cloning our repository

git clone https://github.com/RafPe/docker-phpipam.git

 

Once thats done  we can checkout specific tag ( tag associated with content of this post )

git checkout -t v1.0.1

 

and then we have all components needed to run the last command

docker-compose up -d

which in return gives the following output

 

And off you go ahead with testing. Here couple of points are worth of mentioning:

• For production run use database backend which has persistent storage – as in this form DB has no persistent storage
• Consider using SSL

 

Application has a lot of PROs and in my opinion is really worth of looking into if your management tools needs some automation!