Dockerized MiKTeX

This image allows you to run MiKTeX on any computer that supports Docker.

Obtaining the image

Get the latest image from the registry:

docker pull miktex/miktex

or build it yourself:

docker build --tag miktex/miktex .

Using the image

Volumes

Input files

The host directory containing the input files must be mounted to the container path /miktex/work.

To mount the current host working directory, you would pass option -v $(pwd):/miktex/work to the Docker run command.

Package files

The container image contains a bare MiKTeX setup and MiKTeX is configured to install missing package files in the container directory /miktex/.miktex. It is recommended that you mount this directory to a dedicated Docker volume.

Running as root or not

By default, all commands inside the container are executed as root.

It is possible to execute as a dedicated host user by setting the container environment variables MIKTEX_GID and MIKTEX_UID.

To execute as the current user, you would pass options -e MIKTEX_GID=$(id -g) and -e MIKTEX_UID=$(id -u) to the Docker run command.

Example

First, create a Docker volume named miktex:

docker volume create --name miktex

This volume will be used to mount the the container directory /miktex/.miktex in subsequent runs.

Provided that your main input file is located in the current working directory, you can run pdflatex as follows:

docker run --rm -ti \
  -v miktex:/miktex/.miktex \
  -v $(pwd):/miktex/work \
  -e MIKTEX_GID=$(id -g) \
  -e MIKTEX_UID=$(id -u) \
  miktex/miktex \
  pdflatex main.tex