NocoDB

Free and self-hostable Airtable alternative — turn any database into a smart spreadsheet.

Port	8080
Registry	ghcr.io/daemonless/nocodb
Source	https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb
Website	https://nocodb.com/

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
latest	Upstream Binary. Built from official release.	Most users — recommended.

Prerequisites

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions.

Deployment

Podman Compose

services:
  nocodb:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/nocodb:latest"
    container_name: nocodb
    environment:
      - PUID=1000  # User ID for the application process
      - PGID=1000  # Group ID for the application process
      - TZ=UTC  # Timezone for the container
      - NC_DB=  # External database connection string (e.g. pg://host:5432?u=user&p=pass&d=db). Defaults to a local SQLite file in /config.
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/nocodb:/config"
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    # always (not unless-stopped) so FreeBSD's podman rc.d auto-starts it at boot
    restart: always

Save as compose.yaml, then run podman-compose up -d.

AppJail Director

.env:

# .env

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=nocodb
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
TZ=UTC
NC_DB=

appjail-director.yml:

# appjail-director.yml

options:
  - virtualnet: ':<random> default'
  - nat:
services:
  nocodb:
    name: nocodb
    options:
      - container: 'boot args:--pull'
      - expose: '8080:8080 proto:tcp'
    oci:
      user: root
      environment:
        - PUID: !ENV '${PUID}'
        - PGID: !ENV '${PGID}'
        - TZ: !ENV '${TZ}'
        - NC_DB: !ENV '${NC_DB}'
    volumes:
      - nocodb: /config
volumes:
  nocodb:
    device: '/path/to/containers/nocodb'

Makejail:

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/nocodb:${tag}

Save the files above, then run appjail-director up.

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Podman CLI

podman run -d --name nocodb \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -e NC_DB= \
  -v /path/to/containers/nocodb:/config \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/nocodb:latest

Save as run.sh, then run sh run.sh.

AppJail

appjail oci run -Pd \
  -o overwrite=force \
  -o container="args:--pull" \
  -o virtualnet=":<random> default" \
  -o nat \
  -o expose="8080:8080 proto:tcp" \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -e NC_DB= \
  -o fstab="/path/to/containers/nocodb /config <pseudofs>" \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/nocodb:latest nocodb

Save as run.sh, then run sh run.sh.

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Bastille

Warning

Bastille's OCI support is experimental. It requires buildah, shares the host network stack (inherit), and persists image-declared volumes under --data-path.

services:
  nocodb:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/nocodb:latest"
    container_name: nocodb
    network_mode: host  # jail shares host networking
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=UTC
      - NC_DB=

Save as podman-compose.yml, then run bastille up. Or via CLI:

bastille create -O \
  --env PUID=1000 \
  --env PGID=1000 \
  --env TZ=UTC \
  --env NC_DB= \
  --data-path /path/to/containers/nocodb \
  nocodb ghcr.io/daemonless/nocodb:latest inherit

Ansible

- name: Deploy nocodb
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: nocodb
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/nocodb:latest"
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    env:
      PUID: "1000"
      PGID: "1000"
      TZ: "UTC"
      NC_DB: ""
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/nocodb:/config"

Save as nocodb-deploy.yaml, then run ansible-playbook nocodb-deploy.yaml.

Access at: http://localhost:8080

Parameters

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
PUID	1000	User ID for the application process
PGID	1000	Group ID for the application process
TZ	UTC	Timezone for the container
NC_DB	``	External database connection string (e.g. pg://host:5432?u=user&p=pass&d=db). Defaults to a local SQLite file in /config.

Volumes

Path	Description
/config	Configuration directory (SQLite database, uploaded attachments)

Ports

Port	Protocol	Description
8080	TCP	Web UI

Architectures: amd64 User: bsd (UID/GID via PUID/PGID, defaults to 1000:1000) Base: FreeBSD 15.1

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