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Is it that difficult to run Mastodon over Docker? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am used to simple things running on Docker (Jellyfin, Nextcloud, etc.) I am looking at running my own personal Mastodon instance (maybe share it with a few friends and family), but I like using Docker. Looking at install guides, the steps required seem to be much harder than just editing docker-compose.yml and running the container. Is it actually that difficult to set up Mastodon, or is there a better guide? I can't just use Yunohost/CasaOS because I am using a VPS to host this.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm running the mastodon stack in docker via a compose file. It was straight forward. Follow the instructions to the letter and it will work.

I will say that it is in your best interest to have an automated update process happen, either manually (via cron) multiple times a day or have some kind of orchestration layer that manages updating the component images once they are released. Mastodon has had some nasty 0 day bugs that involved account and server takeover that had to be fixed immediately, and you don't want to lag very far behind in those cases.

Edit:

Docker compose from their repo:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/docker-compose.yml

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

There's a project called Watchtower that is specifically for auto-updating docker-compose containers