Docker Compose setting for APOC installation

Neo4j Graph Platform
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#1

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.jar -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?

#2

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

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#3

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
#4

What is the full error message here?

#5

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

#6

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

#7

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.*