Installing with Docker

Directus is published to both DockerHub (opens new window) and GitHub Packages (opens new window) under directus/directus. To run Directus straight from DockerHub, run:

docker run -p 8055:8055 directus/directus

Installing Specific Versions

For every version we release, we update/publish three tags. This allows you to use the latest released version, the latest minor (eg v9.1) or a specific version (eg v9.1.2). To run Directus on a specific version, run:

docker run -p 8055:8055 directus/directus:v9
# OR
docker run -p 8055:8055 directus/directus:v9.1
# OR
docker run -p 8055:8055 directus/directus:v9.1.2

Create admin user using docker

The published Docker image will automatically populate the database, and create a user. To configure the email/password for this first user, pass the following env vars:

ADMIN_EMAIL="admin@example.com"
ADMIN_PASSWORD="d1r3ctu5"

Docker Compose

When using Docker compose, you can use the following setup to get you started:

version: '3.2'
services:
  database:
    image: postgres:12
    volumes:
      - ./data/database:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    networks:
      - directus
    ports:
      - 5432:5432
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: 'directus'
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: 'directus'
      POSTGRES_DB: 'directus'

  cache:
    image: redis:6
    networks:
      - directus
    ports:
      - 6379:6379

  directus:
    image: directus/directus:v9.0.0-rc.24
    ports:
      - 8055:8055
    networks:
      - directus
    environment:
      KEY: '255d861b-5ea1-5996-9aa3-922530ec40b1'
      SECRET: '6116487b-cda1-52c2-b5b5-c8022c45e263'

      DB_CLIENT: 'pg'
      DB_HOST: 'database'
      DB_PORT: '5432'
      DB_DATABASE: 'directus'
      DB_USER: 'directus'
      DB_PASSWORD: 'directus'

      CACHE_ENABLED: 'true'
      CACHE_STORE: 'redis'
      CACHE_REDIS: 'redis://cache:6379'

      ADMIN_EMAIL: 'admin@example.com'
      ADMIN_PASSWORD: 'password'

networks:
  directus: