Docker Compose setting for APOC installation

[intouch_vivek]

I have docker compose file
neo:
image: neo4j:latest
ports:
- '7474:7474'
- '7473:7473'
- '7687:7687'
expose:
- 7474
environment:
- NEO4J_dbms_security_procedures_unrestricted=apoc.*
- NEO4J_apoc_import_file_enabled=true
- NEO4J_apoc_export_file_enabled=true
- NEO4J_apoc_import_file_use__neo4j__config=true
- NEO4J_dbms_shell_enabled=true
- NEO4J_AUTH=user/password
- NEO4J_HEAP_MEMORY=4G
- NEO4J_CACHE_MEMORY=2G
user: ${CURRENT_UID}
volumes:
- "neo-data:/data"
- "neo-data:/conf"
- "neo-data:/plugins"
- "neo-data:/import"
- "neo-data:/logs"

I was expecting the Neo4j container will come up with APOC installed in it .
There was no problem in Neo4j server but /plugins folder was empty also CALL apoc.config.list() was throwing error "ProcedurenotFound ..... "

To install APOC at the container I tried -

1. cd /plugins
2. curl -L https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/neo4j-apoc-procedures/releases/download/3.5.0.2/apoc-3.5.0.2-all.ja... -O
   inside the Neo4j --- This command downloaded the APOC jar into plugins
3. Restarted the container
4. Tried CALL apoc.config.list() and it worked.

Question: Is there any way to get installed the APOC using docker compose file itself?

[stefan_armbrust]

Newer version of the docker container (I think >= 3.5.11) do support a env variable NEO4JLABS_PLUGINS being an array of plugins to integrate, e.g.

docker run -it --rm --env 'NEO4JLABS_PLUGINS=["apoc", "graph-algorithms"]' neo4j:3.5.11

[intouch_vivek]

Thanks for your input Stefan!!

I need to keep things at my docker compose file and when i tried to have

• NEO4JLABS_PLUGINS=["apoc", "graph-algorithms"] in the env section of compose file it just downloaded *.json file in the container however my exception is to download apoc jar into the plugins

[stefan_armbrust]

intouch.vivek:

however my exception is to download apoc jar into the plugins

What is the full error message here?

[stefan_armbrust]

I suspect you need to quote the value of NEO4JLABS_PLUGINS somehow. Docker compose uses YAML.

[intouch_vivek]

There is no error message, however my docker compose file brings up the neo4j instance but without APOC

[hillarywang2005]

add apoc.jar file into the plugins directory then...
change your plugins directory as:

/var/lib/neo4j/plugins

and add:

-e NEO4J_dbms_security_procedures_unrestricted=apoc.*

[lucas_picollo]

I'm using my compose like this:

version: "3.8"

services:
  neo4j: 
    image: neo4j:4.1-enterprise
    ports:
    - "7474:7474"
    - "7687:7687"
    volumes:
      - ./neo4j/data:/data
      - ./neo4j/logs:/logs
    environment:
      - NEO4J_AUTH=neo4j/password
      - NEO4J_ACCEPT_LICENSE_AGREEMENT=yes
      - NEO4JLABS_PLUGINS=["graph-data-science", "apoc"]
      - NEO4J_dbms_security_procedures_whitelist=gds.*, apoc.*
      - NEO4J_dbms_security_procedures_unrestricted=gds.*, apoc.*

volumes:
  neo4j:

[markhneedham]

A bit late to the game, but this works for me:

version: '3.7'
services:
  neo4j:
    image: neo4j:4.4.7
    hostname: neo4j
    container_name: neo4j
    ports:
      - "7474:7474"
      - "7687:7687"
    environment:
      - NEO4JLABS_PLUGINS=["apoc"]

Update: Oops sorry, I didn't realise that someone had already answered it correctly and their post was hidden behind the 'More replies' button!

[markhneedham]

This works for me:

version: '3.7'
services:
  neo4j:
    image: neo4j:4.4.7
    hostname: neo4j
    container_name: neo4j
    ports:
      - "7474:7474"
      - "7687:7687"
    environment:
      - NEO4JLABS_PLUGINS=["apoc"]