Use one of two ways to run a container:

1. To run a build directly from Docker hub, run

$ docker run -d -p 8983:8983 --name solr datagov/inventory-solr

2. Build an image from Dockerfile from this repo

$ git clone https://github.com/GSA/inventory-solr.git
$ cd inventory-solr
$ docker build -t datagov/inventory-solr .
$ docker run -d -p 8983:8983 --name solr datagov/inventory-solr

In your browser, you must be able to open (replace localhost with host name of your VM if needed): http://localhost:8983/solr

Configure your CKAN .ini file to use your new SOLR instance (replace localhost with host name of your VM if needed)

solr_url = http://localhost:8983/solr/ckan

If you already have data in your CKAN, you can rebuild SOLR data: http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/paster.html#search-index-rebuild-search-index