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Difficulty

Difficulty: Easy

1 service, 1 volume mount, no env values to set, no elevated host access. Heuristic score 0 of 11: easy.

Stack

Go (language)

Deployment

docker_compose

Requirements

Not stated.

License

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved open source)

Read from github.com/apache/answer/blob/6744295/LICENSE

Business model

Unknown

The README at the pinned commit does not state a business model, so it stays unknown.

Source: github.com/apache/answer/blob/6744295/README.md, read on 2026-10-22.

Repository

apache/answer

GitHub stats

Stars: 15,701
Forks: 1,378
Open issues and pull requests: 134
Last push: 2026-10-21
Latest release: v2.0.3
Released: 2026-10-09

From the GitHub API on 2026-10-22. These numbers are a snapshot, not live. GitHub detected the license as Apache-2.0.

Compose file

Config check passed docker compose config exited 0 on this exact file on 2026-10-22.

docker-compose.yaml Version 1

# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
# distributed with this work for additional information
# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
# specific language governing permissions and limitations
# under the License.

version: "3"
services:
  answer:
    image: apache/answer
    ports:
      - '9080:80'
    restart: on-failure
    volumes:
      - answer-data:/data

volumes:
  answer-data:

From the app's own repository: github.com/apache/answer/blob/6744295/docker-compose.yaml.

Compose file from the app repository.

Install

Docker with the Compose plugin (github.com/apache/answer/blob/6744295/docker-compose.yaml)
A host with Docker and the Docker Compose plugin. This entry runs from a compose file.
Save the compose file as docker-compose.yaml (github.com/apache/answer/blob/6744295/docker-compose.yaml)
Use the compose file shown above.
Start it (github.com/apache/answer/blob/6744295/docker-compose.yaml)
```
docker compose up -d
```
Open the app (github.com/apache/answer/blob/6744295/docker-compose.yaml)
Open http://localhost:9080. The compose file publishes host port 9080 for the answer service.

Compose file check: config_ok on 2026-10-22.

Gotchas and maintenance

Gotchas

Some images use the latest tag or no tag. Images without a pinned version: answer: apache/answer (no tag). A later pull can get a different version. (github.com/apache/answer/blob/6744295/docker-compose.yaml, checked 2026-10-22)
The compose file publishes host ports. Host ports: 9080 (answer). A port without a host address listens on all host network interfaces. (github.com/apache/answer/blob/6744295/docker-compose.yaml, checked 2026-10-22)

Signals

Open issues and pull requests: 134
Last push: 2026-10-21 (0 days before this page was built)
Latest release: v2.0.3 on 2026-10-09 (12 days before this page was built)