Zabbix Handy Tips: Deploying Zabbix Server with Docker containers

Zabbix Handy Tips - is byte-sized news for busy techies, focused on one particular topic. In this video, we will learn how to deploy the Zabbix server and frontend components with Docker containers.

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[yerunski]

It would be nice if there is some guidance or reference how to set up a new MySQL server in Docker. In the tutorial, an existing MySQL server is used wherefore we don't know the configuration.

[Deancox]

Yes I agree, the "here's a sql server I set up before" trick isn't at all help-full and leaves me lost after attempting all other forms of install. Zabbix is now on my "don't go there list"

[TheWajika]

Why doesn't zabbix officially provide the best configuration for docker-compose?

[xoRial]

would be great if you pasted the commands as text in the description

[Htbaa]

Got this working nicely so far, but when I want to run zabbix-agent2 as a Docker container (with --privileged) I get some weird results. CPU usage is based on container load, not server load. Disk usage gives the right numbers, but the mount points don't make sense. Instead of / (root) it's /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf. Process count seems to be limited to the agent container as well. Do you have any guides on how to use the zabbix-agent2 docker image to monitor your server?

[mcCckare]

I see the zabbix agent not running after installation, which is the best way to start the zabbix agent on docker platform?

[ben_r_]

Cool. Very short tutorial that should include more foundational steps like setting up the data base container, but even after figuring that out I could not get this to work. Zabbix Server MySQL creates the database with almost 200 tables, but every time it tries to start up after that I get:
cannot use database "zabbix": its "users" table is empty (is this the Zabbix proxy database?)
And so do a LOT of others around the net.

[JohnPamplin]

I wonder if there's a docker container for Zabbix 6 yet?

[funkiam]

maybe there is a docker-compose file too? is a bit not user-friendly run so long commands from the command line

[phalcon]

I tried installing latest... got error in my gui "Unsupported charset or collation for tables: acknowledges, actions, alerts, auditlog, autoreg_host, conditions, config, config_autoreg_tls, corr_condition_tag, corr_condition_tagpair,

[mykolamorgun]

Why don't you use docker-compous?

[strackx]

With all due respect guys, the complexity that you added to this process, defeats one of the purposes of docker. There is little difference between this and a hard install.

[carlosmartinez]

Ji. MySQL server is not available. Waiting 5 seconds...
**** MySQL server is not available. Waiting 5 seconds...
**** MySQL server is not available. Waiting 5 seconds...
**** MySQL server is not available. Waiting 5 seconds...
**** MySQL server is not available. Waiting