Self-host Traccar with Docker

An open-source GPS tracking platform supporting over 170 device protocols. This page describes the Levelrail template for Traccar (IoT). It deploys the services below as one Docker Compose app on your own server. Project site: https://www.traccar.org/documentation/. Recommended memory: about 1024 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
`traccar`	`traccar/traccar:6.6`	8082	none
`traccar-db`	`postgres:16-alpine`	none	`traccar_postgres_data -> /var/lib/postgresql/data`

Environment variables

Service	Variable	Value
`traccar`	`CONFIG_USE_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES`	Preset in the template
`traccar`	`DATABASE_DRIVER`	Preset in the template
`traccar`	`DATABASE_PASSWORD`	Generated at deploy
`traccar`	`DATABASE_URL`	Preset in the template
`traccar`	`DATABASE_USER`	Preset in the template
`traccar-db`	`POSTGRES_DB`	Preset in the template
`traccar-db`	`POSTGRES_PASSWORD`	Generated at deploy
`traccar-db`	`POSTGRES_USER`	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 Traccar with Levelrail

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

levelrail-cli templates deploy traccar --name my-traccar

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 Traccar with Docker

Services, ports and volumes

Environment variables

Deploy Traccar with Levelrail

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​Services, ports and volumes

​Environment variables

​Deploy Traccar with Levelrail

​More IoT templates

Services, ports and volumes

Environment variables

Deploy Traccar with Levelrail

More IoT templates