# Verba Docker installation on Debian

**URL:** <https://forum.weaviate.io/t/verba-docker-installation-on-debian/10040>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 7, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/verba-docker-installation-on-debian/10040 "2025-02-07T16:17:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Rodney\_Puplampu](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/rodney_puplampu/32/3497_2.png) [@Rodney\_Puplampu](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/Rodney_Puplampu)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/verba-docker-installation-on-debian/10040/1 "2025-02-07T16:17:00Z")

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### Description

I am trying to deploy Verba via a docker on a debian server.  
it fails with this:  
Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution’)':  
=\> =\> # /simple/weaviate-client/

### Server Setup Information

- Weaviate Server Version:
- Deployment Method: Docker-Verba+Ollama 
- Multi Node? No Number of Running Nodes:
- Client Language and Version: Python 3.11
- Multitenancy?:  
No

### Any additional Information

NOTE: I have Ollama up and working on the local machine, the same machine I am trying to run the verba docker.  
=\> =\> # d0037590\>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution’)‘:  
=\> =\> # /simple/weaviate-client/  
=\> =\> # WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connec  
=\> =\> # tion broken by ‘NewConnectionError(’\<pip.\_vendor.urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f1d  
=\> =\> # d0035750\>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution’)':  
=\> =\> # /simple/weaviate-client/

1. I verified my variables are set.
2. and Here is my docker-compose.yml file content

# docker-compose.yml

* * *

services:  
verba:  
build:  
context: ./  
dockerfile: Dockerfile  
ports:  
- 8000:8000  
environment:  
- WEAVIATE\_URL\_VERBA=localhost:8000  
- OLLAMA\_URL=localhost:11434  
- OLLAMA\_MODEL=$OLLAMA\_MODEL  
- UNSTRUCTURED\_API\_KEY=$UNSTRUCTURED\_API\_KEY  
- UNSTRUCTURED\_API\_URL=$UNSTRUCTURED\_API\_URL

```
volumes:
  - ./data:/data/
depends_on:
  weaviate:
    condition: service_healthy
healthcheck:
  test: wget --no-verbose --tries=3 --spider http://localhost:8000 || exit 1
  interval: 5s
  timeout: 10s
  retries: 5
  start_period: 10s
networks:
  - ollama-docker

```

weaviate:  
command:  
- --host  
- 0.0.0.0  
- --port  
- ‘8080’  
- --scheme  
- http  
image: semitechnologies/weaviate:1.25.10  
ports:  
- 8080:8080  
- 3000:8080  
volumes:  
- weaviate\_data:/var/lib/weaviate  
restart: on-failure:0  
healthcheck:  
test: wget --no-verbose --tries=3 --spider [http://localhost:8080/v1/.well-known/ready](http://localhost:8080/v1/.well-known/ready) || exit 1  
interval: 5s  
timeout: 10s  
retries: 5  
start\_period: 10s  
environment:  
OPENAI\_APIKEY: $OPENAI\_API\_KEY  
COHERE\_APIKEY: $COHERE\_API\_KEY  
QUERY\_DEFAULTS\_LIMIT: 25  
AUTHENTICATION\_ANONYMOUS\_ACCESS\_ENABLED: ‘true’  
PERSISTENCE\_DATA\_PATH: ‘/var/lib/weaviate’  
ENABLE\_MODULES: ‘e’  
CLUSTER\_HOSTNAME: ‘node1’  
networks:  
- ollama-docker

# Uncomment to use Ollama within the same docker compose

# ollama:

# image: ollama/ollama:latest

# ports:

# - 7869:11434

# volumes:

# - .:/code

# - ./ollama/ollama:/root/.ollama

# container\_name: ollama

# pull\_policy: always

# tty: true

# restart: always

# environment:

# - OLLAMA\_KEEP\_ALIVE=24h

# - OLLAMA\_HOST=0.0.0.0

# networks:

# - ollama-docker

volumes:  
weaviate\_data: {}

networks:  
ollama-docker:  
external: false

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**Author:** ![Rodney\_Puplampu](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/rodney_puplampu/32/3497_2.png) [@Rodney\_Puplampu](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/Rodney_Puplampu)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/verba-docker-installation-on-debian/10040/2 "2025-02-09T16:56:57Z")

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I successfully installed from source.

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**Author:** ![DudaNogueira](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dudanogueira/32/7846_2.png) [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/verba-docker-installation-on-debian/10040/3 "2025-02-10T21:08:40Z")

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hi @Rodney_Puplampu !!

Thanks for sharing!

We provide a docker image here:  
[https://hub.docker.com/r/semitechnologies/verba](https://hub.docker.com/r/semitechnologies/verba)

So o need to build it 🙂