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Installation

Note

If you don’t already have a license, you can request a license key at https://open-fhir.com#access. License will be provided automatically to you via email.

Docker

openFHIR can be easily installed using Docker. The official Docker image is available at openfhir/openfhir:latest.

To run Open-FHIR using Docker, use the following command:

docker run -e SPRING_DATA_MONGODB_URI=mongodb://your-mongodb-url \
           -e LICENSE=/path/to/license \
           -p 8080:8080 openfhir/openfhir:latest

Database

At the moment, mongodb and postgres are supported. By default, mongodb will be used. To change this, configure “db.type” property.

MongoDB

-e DB.TYPE=mongo or in docker compose

services:
  openfhir:
    ....
    environment:
        SPRING_DATA_MONGODB_URI: "mongodb://openfhir:openfhir@mongodb:27017/openfhir"
        DB_TYPE: "mongo"

Postgres

-e DB.TYPE=postgres or in docker compose

services:
  openfhir:
    ....
    environment:
        SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/openfhir
        SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME: postgres
        SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD: postgres
        DB_TYPE: "postgres"

Database stores the following state:

• bootstrapEntity: collection holding a state of all files that were bootstrapped at startup (so they aren’t processed again at each startup)

• conceptMapFhirEntity: concept maps for terminology (see more: Terminology)

• fhirConnectContextEntity: FHIR Connect context mappers

• fhirConnectMapperEntity: FHIR Connect model mappers

• optEntity: Operational templates (unless the engine is integrated to an external openEHR repository, see more: Integrations)

Example docker compose - postgres

services:
  openfhir:
    image: openfhir/openfhir:latest
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    container_name: openfhir
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - "/opt/openfhir/config/examples/:/home/"
      - "/opt/openfhir/config/license.json:/app/openfhir-license.json"
      - "/opt/openfhir/config/bootstrap/:/app/bootstrap/"
      - "/opt/openfhir/config/application.yaml:/application.yaml"

  postgres:
    image: postgres:16
    network_mode: host
    ports:
      - "5432:5432"
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: postgres
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
    volumes:
      - "/opt/openfhir/config/init-db.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init-db.sql"

init-db.sql

-- Create OpenFHIR database and user
CREATE DATABASE openfhir;
CREATE USER openfhir WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'openfhir';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE openfhir TO openfhir;

-- Ensure the users can connect and create objects within their databases
ALTER DATABASE openfhir OWNER TO openfhir;

-- Grant privileges to schemas (optional but recommended)
ALTER ROLE openfhir SET search_path TO public;

application.yaml

spring:
  datasource:
    url: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/openfhir
    username: openfhir
    password: openfhir

db:
  type: postgres

server:
  error:
    include-stacktrace: never
    include-message: always
  port: 8080

license: /app/openfhir-license.json
bootstrap:
  dir: /app/bootstrap
  recursively-open-directories: true

Example docker compose - mongo

Example docker compose file

services:
  openfhir:
    image: openfhir/openfhir:latest
    container_name: openfhir
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - "/home/user/Documents/openFHIR/license.json:/app/openfhir-license.json"
      - "/home/user/Documents/openFHIR/openfhir-bootstrap/:/app/bootstrap/"
    environment:
        SPRING_DATA_MONGODB_URI: "mongodb://openfhir:openfhir@mongodb:27017/openfhir"
        LICENSE: "/app/openfhir-license.json" # could also be left out, as this is the default
        BOOTSTRAP_DIR: "/app/bootstrap/" # could also be left out, as this is the default

  mongodb:
    image: mongo:latest
    container_name: mongodb
    ports:
      - "27017:27017"
    environment:
      MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME: "admin"
      MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD: "admin"
      MONGO_INITDB_DATABASE: "openfhir"
    volumes:
      - ./init-mongo.js:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init-mongo.js:ro

init-mongo.js

// Connect to the admin database to create a user for a specific database
db = db.getSiblingDB('openfhir');

// Create a new user with readWrite access to the 'openfhir' database
db.createUser({
    user: 'openfhir',
    pwd: 'openfhir',
    roles: [
        {
            role: 'readWrite',
            db: 'openfhir'
        }
    ]
});