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Pixelfed Docker images
Runtimes
The Pixelfed Dockerfile support multiple target runtimes (Apache, Nginx + FPM, and fpm).
You can consider a runtime target as individual Dockerfiles, but instead, all of them are build from the same optimized Dockerfile, sharing +90% of their configuration and packages.
Apache
Building a custom Pixelfed Docker image using Apache + mod_php can be achieved the following way.
docker build (Apache)
docker build \
-f contrib/docker/Dockerfile \
--target apache-runtime \
--tag <docker hub user>/<docker hub repo> \
.
docker compose (Apache)
version: "3"
services:
app:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: contrib/docker/Dockerfile
target: apache-runtime
Nginx
Building a custom Pixelfed Docker image using nginx + FPM can be achieved the following way.
docker build (nginx)
docker build \
-f contrib/docker/Dockerfile \
--target nginx-runtime \
--build-arg 'PHP_BASE_TYPE=fpm' \
--tag <docker hub user>/<docker hub repo> \
.
docker compose (nginx)
version: "3"
services:
app:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: contrib/docker/Dockerfile
target: nginx-runtime
args:
PHP_BASE_TYPE: fpm
FPM
Building a custom Pixelfed Docker image using FPM (only) can be achieved the following way.
docker build (fpm)
docker build \
-f contrib/docker/Dockerfile \
--target fpm-runtime \
--build-arg 'PHP_BASE_TYPE=fpm' \
--tag <docker hub user>/<docker hub repo> \
.
docker compose (fpm)
version: "3"
services:
app:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: contrib/docker/Dockerfile
target: fpm-runtime
args:
PHP_BASE_TYPE: fpm
Customizing your Dockerfile
Running commands on container start
Description
When a Pixelfed container starts up, the ENTRYPOINT
script will
- Search the
/docker/entrypoint.d/
directory for files and for each file (in lexical order). - Check if the file is executable.
- If the file is not executable, print an error and exit the container.
- If the file has the extension
.envsh
the file will be sourced. - If the file has the extension
.sh
the file will be run like a normal script. - Any other file extension will log a warning and will be ignored.
Included scripts
/docker/entrypoint.d/04-defaults.envsh
calculates Docker container environment variables needed for templating configuration files./docker/entrypoint.d/05-templating.sh
renders template configuration files./docker/entrypoint.d/10-storage.sh
ensures Pixelfed storage related permissions and commands are run./docker/entrypoint.d/20-horizon.sh
ensures Laravel Horizon used by Pixelfed is configured/docker/entrypoint.d/30-cache.sh
ensures all Pixelfed caches (router, view, config) is warmed
Disabling entrypoint or individual scripts
To disable the entire entrypoint you can set the variable ENTRYPOINT_SKIP=1
.
To disable individual entrypoint scripts you can add the filename to the space (" "
) separated variable ENTRYPOINT_SKIP_SCRIPTS
. (example: ENTRYPOINT_SKIP_SCRIPTS="10-storage.sh 30-cache.sh"
)
Templating
The Docker container can do some basic templating (more like variable replacement) as part of the entrypoint scripts via gomplate.
Any file put in the /docker/templates/
directory will be templated and written to the right directory.
File path examples
- To template
/usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
in the container put the source file in/docker/templates/usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
. - To template
/a/fantastic/example.txt
in the container put the source file in/docker/templates/a/fantastic/example.txt
. - To template
/some/path/anywhere
in the container put the source file in/docker/templates/a/fantastic/example.txt
.
Available variables
Variables available for templating are sourced (in order, so last source takes precedence) like this:
env:
in yourdocker-compose.yml
or-e
in yourdocker run
/docker compose run
- Any exported variables in
.envsh
files loaded before05-templating.sh
(e.g. any file with04-
,03-
,02-
,01-
or00-
prefix) - All key/value pairs in
/var/www/.env.docker
- All key/value pairs in
/var/www/.env
Template guide 101
Please see the gomplate documentation for a more comprehensive overview.
The most frequent use-case you have is likely to print a environment variable (or a default value if it's missing), so this is how to do that:
{{ getenv "VAR_NAME" }}
print an environment variable and fail if the variable is not set. (docs){{ getenv "VAR_NAME" "default" }}
print an environment variable and printdefault
if the variable is not set. (docs)
The script will fail if you reference a variable that does not exist (and don't have a default value) in a template.
Please see the
Build settings (arguments)
The Pixelfed Dockerfile utilizes Docker Multi-stage builds and Build arguments.
Using build arguments allow us to create a flexible and more maintainable Dockerfile, supporting multiple runtimes (FPM, Nginx, Apache + mod_php) and end-user flexibility without having to fork or copy the Dockerfile.
Build arguments can be configured using --build-arg 'name=value'
for docker build
, docker compose build
and docker buildx build
. For docker-compose.yml
the args
key for build
can be used.
PHP_VERSION
The PHP
version to use when building the runtime container.
Any valid Docker Hub PHP version is acceptable here, as long as it's published to Docker Hub
Example values:
8
will use the latest version of PHP 88.1
will use the latest version of PHP 8.18.2.14
will use PHP 8.2.14latest
will use whatever is the latest PHP version
Default value: 8.1
PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS
PECL extensions to install via pecl install
Use PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA if you want to add additional extenstions.
Only change this setting if you want to change the baseline extensions.
See the PECL extensions
documentation on Docker Hub for more information.
Default value: imagick redis
PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA
Extra PECL extensions (separated by space) to install via pecl install
See the PECL extensions
documentation on Docker Hub for more information.
Default value: ""
PHP_EXTENSIONS
PHP Extensions to install via docker-php-ext-install
.
NOTE: use PHP_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA
if you want to add additional extensions, only override this if you want to change the baseline extensions.
See the How to install more PHP extensions
documentation on Docker Hub for more information
Default value: intl bcmath zip pcntl exif curl gd
PHP_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA
Extra PHP Extensions (separated by space) to install via docker-php-ext-install
.
See the How to install more PHP extensions
documentation on Docker Hub for more information.
Default value: ""
PHP_EXTENSIONS_DATABASE
PHP database extensions to install.
By default we install both pgsql
and mysql
since it's more convinient (and adds very little build time! but can be overwritten here if required.
Default value: pdo_pgsql pdo_mysql pdo_sqlite
COMPOSER_VERSION
The version of Composer to install.
Please see the Docker Hub composer
page for valid values.
Default value: 2.6
APT_PACKAGES_EXTRA
Extra APT packages (separated by space) that should be installed inside the image by apt-get install
Default value: ""
NGINX_VERSION
Version of nginx
to when targeting nginx-runtime
.
Please see the Docker Hub nginx
page for available versions.
Default value: 1.25.3
PHP_BASE_TYPE
The PHP
base image layer to use when building the runtime container.
When targeting
apache-runtime
useapache
fpm-runtime
usefpm
nginx-runtime
usefpm
Valid values:
apache
fpm
cli
Default value: apache
PHP_DEBIAN_RELEASE
The Debian
Operation System version to use.
Valid values:
bullseye
bookworm
Default value: bullseye