Installing with PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL might be considered if you need to support many concurrent users. In addition, some features are only enabled on PostgreSQL, such as fuzzy search.
For Environment Variable Configuration, see Backend Configuration
services:
mealie:
image: ghcr.io/mealie-recipes/mealie:v1.12.0 # (3)
container_name: mealie
restart: always
ports:
- "9925:9000" # (1)
deploy:
resources:
limits:
memory: 1000M # (2)
volumes:
- mealie-data:/app/data/
environment:
# Set Backend ENV Variables Here
ALLOW_SIGNUP: "false"
PUID: 1000
PGID: 1000
TZ: America/Anchorage
MAX_WORKERS: 1
WEB_CONCURRENCY: 1
BASE_URL: https://mealie.yourdomain.com
# Database Settings
DB_ENGINE: postgres
POSTGRES_USER: mealie
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: mealie
POSTGRES_SERVER: postgres
POSTGRES_PORT: 5432
POSTGRES_DB: mealie
depends_on:
postgres:
condition: service_healthy
postgres:
container_name: postgres
image: postgres:15
restart: always
volumes:
- mealie-pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
environment:
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: mealie
POSTGRES_USER: mealie
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD", "pg_isready"]
interval: 30s
timeout: 20s
retries: 3
volumes:
mealie-data:
mealie-pgdata:
- To access the mealie interface you only need to expose port 9000 on the mealie container. Here we expose port 9925 on the host, but feel free to change this to any port you like.
- Setting an explicit memory limit is recommended. Python can pre-allocate larger amounts of memory than is necessary if you have a machine with a lot of RAM. This can cause the container to idle at a high memory usage. Setting a memory limit will improve idle performance.
- You should double check this value isn't out of date when setting up for the first time; check the README and use the value from the "latest release" badge at the top - the format should be
vX.Y.Z
. Whilst a 'latest' tag is available, the Mealie team advises specifying a specific version tag and consciously updating to newer versions when you have time to read the release notes and ensure you follow any manual actions required (which should be rare).