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coldbhop
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July 2, 2026
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cfusion2025 (docker & kubernetes/openshift), import of cfconfig/datasource failing

  • July 2, 2026
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I’m trying to setup a configurable coldfusion docker/kuberntes environment where I can just swap the datasource configs in order to boot up different stages.

I have managed to do this locally on docker by setting up datasources in the cfusion admin page, and then copying the neo-datasource.xml configuration to my host machine.
After that, I adjusted my docker compose to mount the neo-datasource.xml to it’s respective location:

    volumes:
- ./coldfusion/neo-datasource.xml:/opt/coldfusion/cfusion/lib/neo-datasource.xml

This works.

Though, this only works locally, and not on kubernetes. In my attempt to replicate this for kubernetes, I have mounted the neo-datasource.xml into my kuberntes deployment via configmap, but cfusion attempts to write into neo-datasource.xml which is an issue because kubernetes configmaps are always read-only. Here’s the correlating log error:

 Unable to install SQL package: coldfusion.server.ServiceRuntimeException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/coldfusion/cfusion/lib/neo-datasource.xml (Read-only file system)

This was my first attempt of outsourcing a datasource configuration for cfusion.


My second approach was to try to export the datasource settings with cfsetup export, and export the settings to a json. For exporting/importing the datasource configuration, i have followed this guide:
https://helpx.adobe.com/de/coldfusion/using/cfsetup-configuration-tool.html
https://guides.adobe.com/coldfusion/en/docs/install-and-configure-coldfusion/docker-images-coldfusion.html

The export works, but the import always fails.
I have copied the exported datasource json to my local machine, and mounted it into the /app folder to /app/datasource.json.
In my docker-compose.yaml I have set the “importCFSettings” flag:

    environment:
- acceptEULA=YES
- password=redacted
- importCFSettings=/app/datasource.json
- installModules=oracle
volumes:
- ./coldfusion/cfconfig.json:/app/datasource.json
- ./sources:/app

This would I guess be the best solution if this worked, since I could mount the datasource.json into a configmap to my kubernetes deployment, and importCFSettings would, I suppose, override the neo-datasource.xml which would solve my read-only issue.

When booting up my local docker though, I get these warnings/errors:

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: CUSTOMTAG

ERR: Import of test_datasource in DATASOURCE is unsuccessful.

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: DEBUG

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: DOCUMENT

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: DOTNET

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: EMBEDDINGMODEL

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: EVENTGATEWAYINSTANCE

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: EVENTGATEWAYSETTING

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: EVENTGATEWAYTYPE

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: GRAPHQLCLIENTCONFIG

/opt/coldfusion/cfusion/gql/pom.xml

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: GRAPHQLSERVICECONFIG

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: IDPCONFIGURATION

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: LDAPCONFIG

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: LOGGING

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: MAIL

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: MAPPING

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: MCPSERVER

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: METRIC

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: MONITORING

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: NOSQL

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: PDFSERVICE

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: PROBE

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: PROBECONFIG

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: REST

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: RUNTIME

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: SAMLCONFIG

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: SANDBOX

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: SCHEDULETASK

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: SECURITY

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: SOLR

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: SPCONFIGURATION

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: USER

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: VECTORSTORE

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: WATCH

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: WEBSERVICE

WARN: The JSON has no data for category: WEBSOCKET

ERR: Import of DATASOURCE is unsuccessful.

Backup of files are taken and stored at /opt/coldfusion/cfusion/lib/cfsetup_backup/1782983852508.

ExitStatus: FAIL

Error: Failed to import CF settings


I am using the following image:
adobecoldfusion/coldfusion2025:latest

 

Is there any other approach I could try? Have I missed something or is this a bug to cfusion2025?

 

    1 reply

    coldbhop
    coldbhopAuthor
    Participant
    July 2, 2026

    I have managed to succeed now with importCFSettings locally on docker. There was some config I was missing…

    Though, it still isn’t working on kubernetes/openshift:

    Import CF settings
    Password: su: Authentication failure
    Error: Failed to import CF settings

    Probably an openshift SCC issue.