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Camunda Platform 8

This repository contains links to Camunda Platform 8 resources, the official release artifacts (binaries), and supporting config files for running Docker Compose as a local development option.

⚠️ Docker Compose is only recommended for local development. ⚠️

For production and development environments, we recommend:

For more information about Self-Managed, including additional development installation options, see our documentation.

Production Setup:

For production setups we recommend using Helm charts, which can be found at helm.camunda.io.

Local Development Setup

  • Camunda 8 Run: A lightweight, self-contained distribution of Camunda Platform 8 - designed to simplify deployment by bundling all required components into a single package. For more information, see Camunda 8 Run Documentation
  • Docker Compose: A local development environment. For more information, see the Docker Compose section below.
  • Local Kubernetes Cluster: Deploy Camunda 8 Self-Managed on a local Kubernetes cluster for development purposes. For more information, see Camunda 8 Local Kubernetes documentation

Links to additional Camunda Platform 8 repos and assets

Using Docker Compose

Prerequisites

• Docker Compose: Version 1.27.0+ (supports the [latest compose specification](https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/) ).
• Docker: Version 20.10.16+.
• Add keycloak to resolve to 127.0.0.1 on your local machine, and set KEYCLOAK_HOST to `keycloak` in the `.env` file for token refresh and logout functionality.

Setting Up

To spin up a local Camunda Platform 8 Self-Managed environment, use one of the following docker compose configuration files:

  • docker-compose.yaml: The full stack deployment including all Camunda 8 Components: Zeebe, Operate, Tasklist, Connectors, Optimize, Identity, Elasticsearch, Keycloak, Web Modeler, PostgreSQL
  • docker-compose-core.yaml: Deploys Camunda 8 Orchestration Cluster Components: Zeebe, Operate, Tasklist, Connectors, Optimize, Identity
  • docker-compose-web-modeler.yaml: Contains Camunda 8 Web Modeler for modeling purposes only - without Play or any Orchestration Cluster Components

To start a complete Camunda Platform 8 Self-Managed environment locally:

  1. Clone this repository.
  2. Run:
    docker compose up -d
  3. Wait a few minutes for the environment to start up. Monitor the logs, especially the Keycloak container, to ensure the components have started.

Navigate to the different web apps and log in with the user demo and password demo:

Log in to Keycloak using user: admin and password: admin to manage users.

The workflow engine Zeebe is available using gRPC at localhost:26500.

Stopping the Environment

docker compose down -v

Zeebe, Operate, Tasklist, along with Optimize require a separate network from Identity as you'll see in the docker-compose file.

Minimal Setup

This minimal setup does not include Optimize, Identity, Web Modeler and Keycloak:

docker compose -f docker-compose-core.yaml up -d

Deploying BPMN diagrams

In addition to the local environment setup with docker compose, use the Camunda Desktop Modeler to locally model BPMN diagrams for execution and directly deploy them to your local environment. You can also use Web Modeler.

Feedback and updates are welcome!

Securing the Zeebe API

By default, the Zeebe GRPC API is publicly accessible without requiring any client credentials for development purposes.

You can however enable authentication of GRPC requests in Zeebe by setting the environment variable ZEEBE_AUTHENTICATION_MODE to identity, e.g. via running:

ZEEBE_AUTHENTICATION_MODE=identity docker compose up -d

or by modifying the default value in the .env file.

Connectors

Both docker-compose files contain our out-of-the-box Connectors.

Refer to the Connector installation guide for details on how to provide the related Connector templates for modeling.

To inject secrets into the Connector runtime they can be added to the connector-secrets.txt file inside the repository in the format NAME=VALUE per line. The secrets will then be available in the Connector runtime with the format secrets.NAME.

To add custom Connectors either create a new docker image bundling them as described here.

Alternatively, you can mount new Connector JARs as volumes into the /opt/app folder by adding this to the docker-compose file. Keep in mind that the Connector JARs need to bring along all necessary dependencies inside the JAR.

Kibana

A kibana profile is available in the provided docker compose files to support inspection and exploration of the Camunda Platform 8 data in Elasticsearch. It can be enabled by adding --profile kibana to your docker compose command. In addition to the other components, this profile spins up Kibana. Kibana can be used to explore the records exported by Zeebe into Elasticsearch, or to discover the data in Elasticsearch used by the other components (e.g. Operate).

You can navigate to the Kibana web app and start exploring the data without login credentials:

Note You need to configure the index patterns in Kibana before you can explore the data.

  • Go to Management > Stack Management > Kibana > Index Patterns.
  • Create a new index pattern. For example, zeebe-record-* matches the exported records.
    • If you don't see any indexes then make sure to export some data first (e.g. deploy a process). The indexes of the records are created when the first record of this type is exported.
  • Go to Analytics > Discover and select the index pattern.

Desktop Modeler

ℹ️ The Desktop Modeler is open source, free to use.

Download the Desktop Modeler and start modeling BPMN, DMN and Camunda Forms on your local machine.

Deploy or execute a process

Without authentication

Once you are ready to deploy or execute processes use these settings to deploy to the local Zeebe instance:

  • Authentication: None
  • URL: http://localhost:26500

With Zeebe request authentication

If you enabled authentication for GRPC requests on Zeebe you need to provide client credentials when deploying and executing processes:

  • Authentication: OAuth
  • URL: http://localhost:26500
  • Client ID: zeebe
  • Client secret: zecret
  • OAuth URL: http://localhost:18080/auth/realms/camunda-platform/protocol/openid-connect/token
  • Audience: zeebe-api

Web Modeler Self Managed

Important

Non-production installations of Web Modeler are restricted to five collaborators per project. Refer to the documentation for more information.

Standalone setup

Web Modeler can be run standalone with only Identity, Keycloak and Postgres as dependencies by using the Docker Compose.

Issue the following commands to only start Web Modeler and its dependencies:

docker compose -f docker-compose-web-modeler.yaml up -d

To tear down the whole environment, run the following command (including all the data and volumes):

docker compose -f docker-compose-web-modeler.yaml down -v

Warning

This will also delete any data you created.

Alternatively, if you want to keep the data, run without -v parameter:

docker compose -f docker-compose-web-modeler.yaml down

Login

You can access Web Modeler and log in with the user demo and password demo at http://localhost:8070.

Deploy or execute a process

The local Zeebe instance (that is started when using the Docker Compose docker-compose.yaml is pre-configured in Web Modeler.

Once you are ready to deploy or execute a process, you can just use this instance without having to enter the cluster endpoint manually. The correct authentication type is also preset based on the ZEEBE_AUTHENTICATION_MODE environment variable.

Without authentication

No additional input is required.

With Zeebe request authentication

If you enabled authentication for gRPC requests on Zeebe, use the following client credentials when deploying and executing processes:

  • Client ID: zeebe
  • Client secret: zecret

Note

The correct OAuth token URL and audience are preset internally.

Emails

The setup includes Mailpit as a test SMTP server. It captures all emails sent by Web Modeler, but does not forward them to the actual recipients.

You can access emails in Mailpit's Web UI at http://localhost:8075.

Troubleshooting

Submitting Issues

When submitting an issue on this repository, please make sure your issue is related to the docker compose deployment method of the Camunda Platform. All questions regarding to functionality of the web applications should be instead posted on the Camunda Forum. This is the best way for users to query for existing answers that others have already encountered. We also have a category on that forum specifically for Deployment Related Topics.

Running on arm64 based hardware

When using arm64-based hardware like a M1 or M2 Mac the Keycloak container might not start because Bitnami only provides amd64-based images for versions < 22. You can build and tag an arm-based image locally using the following command. After building and tagging the image you can start the environment as described in Using docker-compose.

$ DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 docker build -t bitnami/keycloak:19.0.3 "https://github.com/camunda/camunda-platform.git#8.2.15:.keycloak/"

Resource based authorizations

You can control access to specific processes and decision tables in Operate and Tasklist with resource-based authorization.

This feature is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting RESOURCE_AUTHORIZATIONS_ENABLED to true, either via the .env file or through the command line:

RESOURCE_AUTHORIZATIONS_ENABLED=true docker compose up -d

Multi-Tenancy

You can use multi-tenancy to achieve tenant-based isolation.

This feature is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting MULTI_TENANCY_ENABLED to true, either via the .env file or through the command line:

ZEEBE_AUTHENICATION_MODE=identity MULTI_TENANCY_ENABLED=true docker compose up -d

As seen above the feature also requires you to use identity as an authentication provider.

Ensure you setup tenants in identity after you start the platform.

Camunda Platform 7

Looking for information on Camunda Platform 7? Check out the links below: