Domino on Linux — Community Guide

Don’t panic — just deploy.

Domino on Linux can be simple, powerful, and extremely stable — if you combine the right OS practices, platform components, automation workflows, container strategies, and integration patterns.

This is a community-maintained guide that complements HCL’s official Domino Linux documentation. It documents practical, proven approaches based on many years of real-world deployment, troubleshooting, automation and operations experience.

What You’ll Find Here

  • Getting Started: Understanding how to run Domino on Linux (VM, Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Choose Your Distribution: Red Hat vs Ubuntu, and what matters
  • Installation Guide: Step-by-step approach to deploying Domino
  • Infrastructure: Naming services, SSH, storage (ZFS), networking
  • Container Strategy: Benefits and patterns for containerized Domino
  • Tools & Projects: Related repositories and integrations

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Philosophy

Rather than duplicating existing documentation, this project references and integrates related tools and solutions. Where separate projects exist, this guide points to them. Where configuration and orchestration require end-to-end examples, this project provides opinionated, practical scenarios.

Getting Started

  1. Understand your deployment options
  2. Choose your Linux distribution
  3. Follow the installation guide
  4. Explore advanced topics as needed

Based on 30+ years of Domino expertise and real-world operations experience.