immich
High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
- Replaces
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Not recorded.
- Difficulty
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Difficulty: Hard
4 services (2 database or broker: valkey, postgres), 4 volume mounts, 6 env values to set, no elevated host access. Heuristic score 8 of 11: hard.
- Stack
postgres (database)
- Deployment
docker_compose
- Requirements
Not stated.
- License
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AGPL-3.0(OSI-approved open source) - Business model
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Unknown
Not checked by the pipeline. Read the project's own pricing or docs page before setting this.
- Repository
GitHub stats
- Stars
- 116,865
- Forks
- 7,295
- Open issues and pull requests
- 719
- Last push
- 2026-10-21
From the GitHub API on . These numbers are a snapshot, not live. GitHub detected the license as AGPL-3.0.
Compose file
Not checked
We have not run docker compose config on this file yet.
#
# WARNING: To install Immich, follow our guide: https://docs.immich.app/install/docker-compose
#
# Make sure to use the docker-compose.yml of the current release:
#
# https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml
#
# The compose file on main may not be compatible with the latest release.
name: immich
services:
immich-server:
container_name: immich_server
image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
# extends:
# file: hwaccel.transcoding.yml
# service: cpu # set to one of [nvenc, quicksync, rkmpp, vaapi, vaapi-wsl] for accelerated transcoding
volumes:
# Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the media storage location on your system, edit the value of UPLOAD_LOCATION in the .env file
- ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
env_file:
- .env
ports:
- '2283:2283'
depends_on:
- redis
- database
restart: always
healthcheck:
disable: false
immich-machine-learning:
container_name: immich_machine_learning
# For hardware acceleration, add one of -[armnn, cuda, rocm, openvino, rknn] to the image tag.
# Example tag: ${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}-cuda
image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-machine-learning:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
# extends: # uncomment this section for hardware acceleration - see https://docs.immich.app/features/ml-hardware-acceleration
# file: hwaccel.ml.yml
# service: cpu # set to one of [armnn, cuda, rocm, openvino, openvino-wsl, rknn] for accelerated inference - use the `-wsl` version for WSL2 where applicable
volumes:
- model-cache:/cache
env_file:
- .env
environment:
MACHINE_LEARNING_MODEL_REVISION: v2
restart: always
healthcheck:
disable: false
redis:
container_name: immich_redis
image: docker.io/valkey/valkey:9@sha256:418652cfb58ef879d4978c33553735d7147016032d5aefaa14c828e611eb9dfd
healthcheck:
test: redis-cli ping | grep -q PONG || exit 1
restart: always
database:
container_name: immich_postgres
image: ghcr.io/immich-app/postgres:14-vectorchord0.4.3-pgvectors0.2.0@sha256:bcf63357191b76a916ae5eb93464d65c07511da41e3bf7a8416db519b40b1c23
environment:
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD}
POSTGRES_USER: ${DB_USERNAME}
POSTGRES_DB: ${DB_DATABASE_NAME}
POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS: '--data-checksums'
# Uncomment the DB_STORAGE_TYPE: 'HDD' var if your database isn't stored on SSDs
# DB_STORAGE_TYPE: 'HDD'
volumes:
# Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the database storage location on your system, edit the value of DB_DATA_LOCATION in the .env file
- ${DB_DATA_LOCATION}:/var/lib/postgresql/data
shm_size: 128mb
restart: always
healthcheck:
disable: false
volumes:
model-cache:
From the app's own repository: github.com/immich-app/immich/blob/745bdd2/docker/docker-compose.yml.
Compose file from the app repo.
Install
- Save the compose file as docker-compose.yml (github.com/immich-app/immich/blob/745bdd2/docker/docker-compose.yml)
Use the compose file shown above.
Compose file check: not run.
Gotchas and maintenance
Gotchas
- Update. Update (github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml, checked 2026-10-22)
Signals
- Open issues and pull requests: 719
- Last push: 2026-10-21 (0 days before this page was built)
- Latest release: none recorded