iceshrimp/docs/docker-compose-install.md

Installing Iceshrimp with Docker

This guide is based on docker compose/Docker Compose v2, but docker-compose/Docker Compose v1 should work as well. Docker 20.10+ is required for building your own images because of BuildKit usage, and Docker 20.10 users need to enable BuildKit first, or upgrade to latest Docker.

Preparations

Getting needed files

Run git clone https://iceshrimp.dev/iceshrimp/iceshrimp, but if you are not planning on building your own image, just grabbing .config and docs/examples/docker-compose.yml from the repo will suffice.

docker-compose.yml

First, run cp docs/examples/docker-compose.yml docker-compose.yml, and edit docker-compose.yml if

• you want to build the image yourself or choose a different tag, and/or
• you want a search engine for better search performance.

.config

Run cp .config/docker_example.env .config/docker.env, and edit .config/docker.env and fill it with the database credentials you want.
Run cp .config/example-docker.yml .config/default.yml, and edit .config/default.yml

• Replace example database credentials with the ones you entered in .config/docker.env
• Change other configuration
• Optionally, set up the search backend, if you have chosen to set one up.

Installation and first start

Choose a method, whether you chose to build the image yourself or not.
Note: Ctrl-C will shut down Iceshrimp gracefully.

Pulling the image

docker compose pull
docker compose up

Building the image

Depending on your machine specs, this can take well over 30 minutes

docker compose build
docker compose up

Starting Iceshrimp automatically

Run docker compose up -d and Iceshrimp will start automatically on boot.

Updating Iceshrimp

Pulling the image

docker compose pull
docker compose down
docker compose up -d

Building the image

## Run git stash commands only if you have uncommitted changes
git stash
git pull
git stash pop
docker compose build
docker compose down
docker compose up -d

Post-install

See post-install.