Self-host Penpot with Docker

An open-source design and prototyping platform, a self-hosted alternative to Figma. This page describes the Levelrail template for Penpot (Productivity). It deploys the services below as one Docker Compose app on your own server. Project site: https://help.penpot.app. Recommended memory: about 2048 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
`backend`	`penpotapp/backend:2.11.1`	none	`penpot_assets -> /opt/data/assets`
`exporter`	`penpotapp/exporter:2.11.1`	none	none
`frontend`	`penpotapp/frontend:2.11.1`	8080	none
`postgres`	`postgres:15-alpine`	none	`penpot_db_data -> /var/lib/postgresql/data`
`valkey`	`valkey/valkey:8.1-alpine`	none	`penpot_valkey_data -> /data`

Environment variables

Service	Variable	Value
`backend`	`PENPOT_DATABASE_PASSWORD`	Generated at deploy
`backend`	`PENPOT_DATABASE_URI`	Preset in the template
`backend`	`PENPOT_DATABASE_USERNAME`	Generated at deploy
`backend`	`PENPOT_FLAGS`	Preset in the template
`backend`	`PENPOT_OBJECTS_STORAGE_BACKEND`	Preset in the template
`backend`	`PENPOT_OBJECTS_STORAGE_FS_DIRECTORY`	Preset in the template
`backend`	`PENPOT_PUBLIC_URI`	Preset in the template
`backend`	`PENPOT_REDIS_URI`	Preset in the template
`backend`	`PENPOT_SECRET_KEY`	Generated at deploy
`exporter`	`PENPOT_PUBLIC_URI`	Preset in the template
`exporter`	`PENPOT_REDIS_URI`	Preset in the template
`postgres`	`POSTGRES_DB`	Preset in the template
`postgres`	`POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS`	Preset in the template
`postgres`	`POSTGRES_PASSWORD`	Generated at deploy
`postgres`	`POSTGRES_USER`	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 Penpot with Levelrail

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

levelrail-cli templates deploy penpot --name my-penpot

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

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Last modified on October 12, 2026

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Self-host Penpot with Docker

Services, ports and volumes

Environment variables

Deploy Penpot with Levelrail

More Productivity templates

​Services, ports and volumes

​Environment variables

​Deploy Penpot with Levelrail

​More Productivity templates

Services, ports and volumes

Environment variables

Deploy Penpot with Levelrail

More Productivity templates