I finally managed to selfhost Lemmy and Matrix, now it is time to also get a selfhosted Mastodon instance up. A few questions before I start:

I did some research into the topic and it seems that Mastodon doesn’t like to run behind an existing reverse proxy and there are quite a few tweaks necessary to get it running - can someone confirm this? Or is this something easily set up?

I’m currently leaning to run it on a dedicated VPS (due to the issue above and also because it seems to need quite a bit of disk space) - this opens up to do a non-docker installation and follow the official install path. Do you think this will make it easier to keep it updated to new releases in the future?

If going with a docker install there seem to be quite a few problems with updating (at least a lot of threads discussing failed update procedures sprung up when I googles “mastodon docker update”) - can someone confirm? Are there easy to follow guides for a docker based update routine?

Right now it seems the easiest would be to run on a dedicated server, follow the native installation procedure and use the templates provided for nginx, certbot, … thoughts?

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    1 year ago

    You need to actually piece together those few to come up with one cohesive working instance. I can share with you the docker-compose.yml file that worked for me, if that will help.

    version: '3'
    services:
      db:
        restart: always
        image: postgres:14-alpine
        shm_size: 256mb
        networks:
          - internal_network
        healthcheck:
          test: ['CMD', 'pg_isready', '-U', 'postgres']
        volumes:
          - ./postgres14:/var/lib/postgresql/data
        environment:
          - 'POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust'
    
      redis:
        restart: always
        image: redis:7-alpine
        networks:
          - internal_network
        healthcheck:
          test: ['CMD', 'redis-cli', 'ping']
        volumes:
          - ./redis:/data
    
      # es:
      #   restart: always
      #   image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.17.4
      #   environment:
      #     - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m -Des.enforce.bootstrap.checks=true"
      #     - "xpack.license.self_generated.type=basic"
      #     - "xpack.security.enabled=false"
      #     - "xpack.watcher.enabled=false"
      #     - "xpack.graph.enabled=false"
      #     - "xpack.ml.enabled=false"
      #     - "bootstrap.memory_lock=true"
      #     - "cluster.name=es-mastodon"
      #     - "discovery.type=single-node"
      #     - "thread_pool.write.queue_size=1000"
      #   networks:
      #      - external_network
      #      - internal_network
      #   healthcheck:
      #      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "curl --silent --fail localhost:9200/_cluster/health || exit 1"]
      #   volumes:
      #      - ./elasticsearch:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
      #   ulimits:
      #     memlock:
      #       soft: -1
      #       hard: -1
      #     nofile:
      #       soft: 65536
      #       hard: 65536
      #   ports:
      #     - '127.0.0.1:9200:9200'
    
      web:
        #build: .
        #image: ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon
        image: tootsuite/mastodon:latest
        restart: always
        env_file: .env.production
        command: bash -c "rm -f /mastodon/tmp/pids/server.pid; bundle exec rails s -p 3000"
        networks:
          - external_network
          - internal_network
        healthcheck:
          # prettier-ignore
          test: ['CMD-SHELL', 'wget -q --spider --proxy=off localhost:3000/health || exit 1']
        ports:
          - '127.0.0.1:3000:3000'
        depends_on:
          - db
          - redis
          # - es
        volumes:
          - ./public/system:/mastodon/public/system
    
      streaming:
        #build: .
        #image: ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon
        image: tootsuite/mastodon:latest
        restart: always
        env_file: .env.production
        command: node ./streaming
        networks:
          - external_network
          - internal_network
        healthcheck:
          # prettier-ignore
          test: ['CMD-SHELL', 'wget -q --spider --proxy=off localhost:4000/api/v1/streaming/health || exit 1']
        ports:
          - '127.0.0.1:4000:4000'
        depends_on:
          - db
          - redis
    
      sidekiq:
        #build: .
        #image: ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon
        image: tootsuite/mastodon:latest
        restart: always
        env_file: .env.production
        command: bundle exec sidekiq
        depends_on:
          - db
          - redis
        networks:
          - external_network
          - internal_network
        volumes:
          - ./public/system:/mastodon/public/system
        healthcheck:
          test: ['CMD-SHELL', "ps aux | grep '[s]idekiq\ 6' || false"]
    
      ## Uncomment to enable federation with tor instances along with adding the following ENV variables
      ## http_proxy=http://privoxy:8118
      ## ALLOW_ACCESS_TO_HIDDEN_SERVICE=true
      # tor:
      #   image: sirboops/tor
      #   networks:
      #      - external_network
      #      - internal_network
      #
      # privoxy:
      #   image: sirboops/privoxy
      #   volumes:
      #     - ./priv-config:/opt/config
      #   networks:
      #     - external_network
      #     - internal_network
    
    networks:
      external_network:
      internal_network:
        internal: true