docker-entrypoint.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -eo pipefail

DISABLE_AUTHENTICATION="true"

function rwfail {
  echo "We seem to not have proper rw access to $1. Please make sure that every mounted volume has full rw access for user arangodb ($(id arangodb))"
  exit 55
}

# if command starts with an option, prepend arangod
if [ "${1:0:1}" = '-' ]; then
	set -- arangod "$@"
fi


if [ "$1" = 'arangod' ]; then
	DATADIR=/var/lib/arangodb
	
        # ensure proper uid and gid (for example when volume is mounted from the outside)
        # do NOT chown or stuff like that. when using shared folders on the mac chown is VERY likely to fail due to docker => vm => host issues
        touch "$DATADIR"/_rwcheck_$HOSTNAME || rwfail $DATADIR
        rm "$DATADIR"/_rwcheck_"$HOSTNAME"
        touch /var/lib/arangodb-apps/_rwcheck_"$HOSTNAME" || rwfail /var/lib/arangodb-apps/
        rm /var/lib/arangodb-apps/_rwcheck_"$HOSTNAME"
	if [ ! -f "$DATADIR"/SERVER ]; then
		if [ -z "$ARANGO_ROOT_PASSWORD" -a -z "$ARANGO_NO_AUTH" -a -z "$ARANGO_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD" ]; then
			echo >&2 'error: database is uninitialized and password option is not specified '
			echo >&2 '  You need to specify one of $ARANGO_ROOT_PASSWORD, $ARANGO_NO_AUTH and $ARANGO_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD'
			exit 1
		fi
                
                echo "Initializing database...Hang on..."
                if [ ! -z "$ARANGO_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD" ]; then
                  ARANGO_ROOT_PASSWORD=$(pwgen -s -1 16)
                  echo "==========================================="
                  echo "GENERATED ROOT PASSWORD: $ARANGO_ROOT_PASSWORD"
                  echo "==========================================="
                fi
                
                if [ ! -z "$ARANGO_ROOT_PASSWORD" ]; then
                  (
                    echo "require(\"org/arangodb/users\").replace(\"root\", \"$ARANGO_ROOT_PASSWORD\");"
                  ) |
                  /usr/sbin/arangod --console --log.tty "" &> /dev/null
                  DISABLE_AUTHENTICATION="false"
                fi
                # Initialize if not already done
                /usr/sbin/arangod --console --upgrade
	fi
fi

if [ "$1" == "arangod" ]; then
  # if we really want to start arangod and not bash or any other thing
  # prepend --disable-authentication as the FIRST argument
  # (so it is overridable via command line as well)
  shift
  set -- arangod --server.disable-authentication="$DISABLE_AUTHENTICATION" "$@"
fi

exec "$@"