Self-host Audiobookshelf with Docker

A self-hosted server for your audiobooks and podcasts, with sync across every device. This page describes the Levelrail template for Audiobookshelf (Media). It deploys the services below as one Docker Compose app on your own server. Project site: https://www.audiobookshelf.org/docs. Recommended memory: about 512 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
`audiobookshelf`	`ghcr.io/advplyr/audiobookshelf:2.34.0`	80	`audiobookshelf_config -> /config` `audiobookshelf_metadata -> /metadata` `audiobookshelf_audiobooks -> /audiobooks` `audiobookshelf_podcasts -> /podcasts`

Environment variables

Service	Variable	Value
`audiobookshelf`	`TZ`	Preset in the template

Passwords and keys marked as generated are created for you when the app is deployed and stored as secrets. Values are not shown here.

Deploy Audiobookshelf with Levelrail

In the dashboard, open Apps, choose New app, then Browse templates, and select Audiobookshelf. Review the Compose body and deploy. With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy audiobookshelf --name my-audiobookshelf

See the service template catalog for how templates work, and Getting started if you have not installed Levelrail yet.

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Self-host Audiobookshelf with Docker

Services, ports and volumes

Environment variables

Deploy Audiobookshelf with Levelrail

More Media templates

​Services, ports and volumes

​Environment variables

​Deploy Audiobookshelf with Levelrail

​More Media templates

Services, ports and volumes

Environment variables

Deploy Audiobookshelf with Levelrail

More Media templates