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linuxserver/mastodon

​Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub where users can follow friends and discover new ones..

Supported Architectures

We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here and our announcement here.
Simply pulling lscr.io/linuxserver/mastodon:latest should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.
The architectures supported by this image are:
Architecture
Available
Tag
x86-64
✅
amd64-<version tag>
arm64
✅
arm64v8-<version tag>
armhf
❌
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Version Tags

This image provides various versions that are available via tags. Please read the descriptions carefully and exercise caution when using unstable or development tags.
Tag
Available
Description
latest
✅
Stable releases.
develop
✅
Pre-releases only.
glitch
✅
​glitch-soc fork releases.
## Application Setup
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We provide aliases for the common commands that execute in the correct context so that environment variables from secrets are available to them:
  • To generate keys for SECRET_KEY_BASE & OTP_SECRET run docker run --rm -it --entrypoint /bin/bash lscr.io/linuxserver/mastodon generate-secret once for each.
  • To generate keys for VAPID_PRIVATE_KEY & VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY run docker run --rm -it --entrypoint /bin/bash lscr.io/linuxserver/mastodon generate-vapid
Both of the secret generation aliases above can be run without any other setup having been carried out.
  • To use tootctl you can run something like docker exec -it lscr.io/linuxserver/mastodon /tootctl <command>
Using tootctl requires you to complete the initial Mastodon configuration first.
This container requires separate postgres and redis instances to run.
We support all of the official environment variables for configuration. In place of adding them all to your run/compose you can use an env file such as this example from the upstream project.
For more information check out the mastodon documentation.

Running separate sidekiq instances

It is currently only supported to run a single queue per container instance or all queues in a single container instance.
All containers must share the same `/config`` mount and be on a common docker network.

Strict reverse proxies

This image automatically redirects to https with a self-signed certificate. If you are using a reverse proxy which validates certificates, you need to disable this check for the container.

Usage

To help you get started creating a container from this image you can either use docker-compose or the docker cli.
---
version: "2.1"
services:
mastodon:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/mastodon:latest
container_name: mastodon
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ=Etc/UTC
- LOCAL_DOMAIN=example.com
- REDIS_HOST=redis
- REDIS_PORT=6379
- DB_HOST=db
- DB_USER=mastodon
- DB_NAME=mastodon
- DB_PASS=mastodon
- DB_PORT=5432
- ES_ENABLED=false
- SECRET_KEY_BASE=
- OTP_SECRET=
- VAPID_PRIVATE_KEY=
- VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY=
- SMTP_SERVER=mail.example.com
- SMTP_PORT=25
- SMTP_LOGIN=
- SMTP_PASSWORD=
- [email protected]
- S3_ENABLED=false
- WEB_DOMAIN=mastodon.example.com #optional
- ES_HOST=es #optional
- ES_PORT=9200 #optional
- ES_USER=elastic #optional
- ES_PASS=elastic #optional
- S3_BUCKET= #optional
- AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID= #optional
- AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY= #optional
- S3_ALIAS_HOST= #optional
- SIDEKIQ_ONLY=false #optional
- SIDEKIQ_QUEUE= #optional
- SIDEKIQ_DEFAULT=false #optional
- SIDEKIQ_THREADS=5 #optional
- DB_POOL=5 #optional
volumes:
- /path/to/appdata/config:/config
ports:
- 80:80
- 443:443
restart: unless-stopped
docker run -d \
--name=mastodon \
-e PUID=1000 \
-e PGID=1000 \
-e TZ=Etc/UTC \
-e LOCAL_DOMAIN=example.com \
-e REDIS_HOST=redis \
-e REDIS_PORT=6379 \
-e DB_HOST=db \
-e DB_USER=mastodon \
-e DB_NAME=mastodon \
-e DB_PASS=mastodon \
-e DB_PORT=5432 \
-e ES_ENABLED=false \
-e SECRET_KEY_BASE= \
-e OTP_SECRET= \
-e VAPID_PRIVATE_KEY= \
-e VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY= \
-e SMTP_SERVER=mail.example.com \
-e SMTP_PORT=25 \
-e SMTP_LOGIN= \
-e SMTP_PASSWORD= \
-e SMTP_FROM_ADDRESS=[email protected] \
-e S3_ENABLED=false \
-e WEB_DOMAIN=mastodon.example.com `#optional` \
-e ES_HOST=es `#optional` \
-e ES_PORT=9200 `#optional` \
-e ES_USER=elastic `#optional` \
-e ES_PASS=elastic `#optional` \
-e S3_BUCKET= `#optional` \
-e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID= `#optional` \
-e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY= `#optional` \
-e S3_ALIAS_HOST= `#optional` \
-e SIDEKIQ_ONLY=false `#optional` \
-e SIDEKIQ_QUEUE= `#optional` \
-e SIDEKIQ_DEFAULT=false `#optional` \
-e SIDEKIQ_THREADS=5 `#optional` \
-e DB_POOL=5 `#optional` \
-p 80:80 \
-p 443:443 \
-v /path/to/appdata/config:/config \
--restart unless-stopped \
lscr.io/linuxserver/mastodon:latest
​

Parameters

Docker images are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.

Ports (-p)

Parameter
Function
80
Port for web frontend
443
Port for web frontend

Environment Variables (-e)

Env
Function
PUID=1000
for UserID - see below for explanation
PGID=1000
for GroupID - see below for explanation
TZ=Etc/UTC
specify a timezone to use, see this list.
LOCAL_DOMAIN=example.com
This is the unique identifier of your server in the network. It cannot be safely changed later.
REDIS_HOST=redis
Redis server hostname
REDIS_PORT=6379
Redis port
DB_HOST=db
Postgres database hostname
DB_USER=mastodon
Postgres username
DB_NAME=mastodon
Postgres db name
DB_PASS=mastodon
Postgres password
DB_PORT=5432
Portgres port
ES_ENABLED=false
Enable or disable Elasticsearch (requires a separate ES instance)
SECRET_KEY_BASE=
Browser session secret. Changing it will break all active browser sessions.
OTP_SECRET=
MFA secret. Changing it will break two-factor authentication.
VAPID_PRIVATE_KEY=
Push notification private key. Changing it will break push notifications.
VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY=
Push notification public key. Changing it will break push notifications.
SMTP_SERVER=mail.example.com
SMTP server for email notifications
SMTP_PORT=25
SMTP server port
SMTP_LOGIN=
SMTP username
SMTP_PASSWORD=
SMTP password
From address for emails send from Mastodon
S3_ENABLED=false
Enable or disable S3 storage of uploaded files
WEB_DOMAIN=mastodon.example.com
This can be set if you want your server identifier to be different to the subdomain hosting Mastodon. See https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#basic​
ES_HOST=es
Elasticsearch server hostname
ES_PORT=9200
Elasticsearch port
ES_USER=elastic
Elasticsearch username
ES_PASS=elastic
Elasticsearch password
S3_BUCKET=
S3 bucket hostname
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
S3 bucket access key ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
S3 bucket secret access key
S3_ALIAS_HOST=
Alternate hostname for object fetching if you are front the S3 connections.
SIDEKIQ_ONLY=false
Only run the sidekiq service in this container instance. For large scale instances that need better queue handling.
SIDEKIQ_QUEUE=
The name of the sidekiq queue to run in this container. See notes.
SIDEKIQ_DEFAULT=false
Set to true on the main container if you're running additional sidekiq instances. It will run the default queue.
SIDEKIQ_THREADS=5
The number of threads for sidekiq to use. See notes.
DB_POOL=5
The size of the DB connection pool, must be at least the same as SIDEKIQ_THREADS. See notes.

Volume Mappings (-v)

Volume
Function
/config
Contains all relevant configuration files.

Miscellaneous Options

Environment variables from files (Docker secrets)

You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend FILE__.
As an example:
-e FILE__PASSWORD=/run/secrets/mysecretpassword
Will set the environment variable PASSWORD based on the contents of the /run/secrets/mysecretpassword file.

Umask for running applications

For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional -e UMASK=022 setting. Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up here before asking for support.

User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes (-v flags), permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.
Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.
In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id user as below:
$ id username
uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)

Docker Mods

We publish various Docker Mods to enable additional functionality within the containers. The list of Mods available for this image (if any) as well as universal mods that can be applied to any one of our images can be accessed via the dynamic badges above.

Support Info

  • Shell access whilst the container is running:
    • docker exec -it mastodon /bin/bash
  • To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:
    • docker logs -f mastodon
  • Container version number
    • docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' mastodon
  • Image version number
    • docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' lscr.io/linuxserver/mastodon:latest

Versions

  • 25.05.23: - Adjust apk flags.
  • 09.02.23: - Add Glitch branch.
  • 09.01.23: - Updated nginx conf to fix bring inline with Mastodon configuration (fixes Elk integration).
  • 19.12.22: - Support separate sidekiq queue instances.
  • 05.11.22: - Initial Release.
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