Warp/Docker

Docker: one container per component

The homeserver (warp), the admin panel (warp-admin) and the web client (warp-web) as separate images, built from Dockerfile, apps/admin/Dockerfile and apps/web/Dockerfile.

File	Database	Images
docker-compose.sqlite.yml	SQLite, in the warp-data volume	built here
docker-compose.pocketbase.yml	PocketBase, embedded in the homeserver, in warp-data	built here
docker-compose.postgresql.yml	PostgreSQL 17, its own container	built here
docker-compose.pocketbase.s3.yml	PocketBase, media in an existing S3 bucket elsewhere	built here
docker-compose.pocketbase.seaweedfs.yml	PocketBase, media in SeaweedFS, one container	built here
docker-compose.pocketbase.seaweedfs.split.yml	PocketBase, media in SeaweedFS, one container per role, with its admin UI	built here
docker-compose.*.prod.yml	as above	pulled, never built

cd Docker
cp .env.example .env      # then edit it
docker compose -f docker-compose.sqlite.yml up -d --build
docker compose -f docker-compose.sqlite.yml exec warp warp create-account --username admin --admin

Homeserver on :8008, admin panel on :8009, web client on :8080 (WARP_PORT, WARP_ADMIN_PORT, WARP_WEB_PORT in .env move them). Put a TLS-terminating reverse proxy in front before exposing them; see docs/deployment.md.

PocketBase is a database driver inside the homeserver, not a separate server, so the PocketBase files have no PocketBase container.

Media in S3

The three pocketbase.s3 and pocketbase.seaweedfs setups keep the PocketBase database in /data/pb_data and put media in an S3 bucket (WARP_PB_S3_BUCKET, default warp). Media already stored on the filesystem is not moved into the bucket when S3 is turned on, so start these on a fresh warp-data or copy the files across first.

• docker-compose.pocketbase.s3.yml: a bucket that already exists elsewhere (AWS, MinIO, a SeaweedFS on another host). Set WARP_PB_S3_ENDPOINT, WARP_PB_S3_ACCESS_KEY and WARP_PB_S3_SECRET. Path style is on by default; set WARP_PB_S3_FORCE_PATH_STYLE=false for AWS S3. http://host.docker.internal:8333 reaches a gateway on the Docker host. The homeserver waits up to 30 seconds for the endpoint to answer before it starts.
• docker-compose.pocketbase.seaweedfs.yml: SeaweedFS as one weed server -s3 container, plus a one-shot seaweedfs-init that creates the bucket. The gateway's one identity is the homeserver's key pair, WARP_PB_S3_ACCESS_KEY and WARP_PB_S3_SECRET.
• docker-compose.pocketbase.seaweedfs.split.yml: master, volume, filer, S3 gateway and admin UI (port 23646) as separate containers. seaweedfs-init writes the homeserver's identity into the filer's IAM store on every start, the store the admin UI writes too, so keys added under Object Store → Users never displace it; the gateway does not start until that identity is there. Set SEAWEED_ADMIN_PASSWORD as well.

The S3 gateway and the admin UI are published on 127.0.0.1 only (SEAWEED_S3_BIND, SEAWEED_ADMIN_BIND); master, volume and filer are not published, since the volume server serves content by id with no authentication. Both SeaweedFS files share a project and the seaweed-data layout, so switching between them needs no migration. SEAWEED_IMAGE pins the SeaweedFS release (4.45).

Prod files

The .prod.yml files pull $WARP_REGISTRY/warp, warp-admin and warp-web at tag $WARP_VERSION (defaults ghcr.io/dariuszjaniak and latest). Push the images there first:

docker compose -f docker-compose.sqlite.yml build
for i in warp warp-admin warp-web; do
  docker tag $i:latest $WARP_REGISTRY/$i:$WARP_VERSION
  docker push $WARP_REGISTRY/$i:$WARP_VERSION
done

docker-compose.postgresql.prod.yml refuses to start without WARP_POSTGRES_PASSWORD.

Settings

Every setting is in .env, copied from .env.example, which lists them all with their defaults; an empty value means the default. Compose reads it for the ports, the registry and the PostgreSQL password, and passes all of it to the homeserver, the admin panel and the web client. .env is not committed.

The compose files set only what makes each one what it is: the database driver and connection string, and the address the admin panel and web client reach the homeserver on.