Self-host Kimai with Docker

A self-hosted time tracking tool for freelancers and teams, with invoicing and reporting. This page describes the Levelrail template for Kimai (Productivity). It deploys the services below as one Docker Compose app on your own server. Project site: https://www.kimai.org/documentation/. Recommended memory: about 512 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
`db`	`mysql:8`	none	`kimai_db_data -> /var/lib/mysql`
`kimai`	`kimai/kimai2:apache`	8001	`kimai_data -> /opt/kimai/var`

Environment variables

Service	Variable	Value
`db`	`MYSQL_DATABASE`	Preset in the template
`db`	`MYSQL_PASSWORD`	Generated at deploy
`db`	`MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD`	Generated at deploy
`db`	`MYSQL_USER`	Preset in the template
`kimai`	`ADMINMAIL`	Preset in the template
`kimai`	`ADMINPASS`	Generated at deploy
`kimai`	`DATABASE_URL`	Generated at deploy

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 Kimai with Levelrail

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

levelrail-cli templates deploy kimai --name my-kimai

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 Kimai with Docker

Services, ports and volumes

Environment variables

Deploy Kimai with Levelrail

More Productivity templates

​Services, ports and volumes

​Environment variables

​Deploy Kimai with Levelrail

​More Productivity templates

Services, ports and volumes

Environment variables

Deploy Kimai with Levelrail

More Productivity templates