Self-host Actual Budget with Docker

A local-first, envelope-style budgeting app with optional multi-device sync.

This page describes the Levelrail template for Actual Budget (Finance). It deploys the services below as one Docker Compose app on your own server.

Project site: https://actualbudget.org/docs/install/docker/.

Recommended memory: about 256 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
actual	actualbudget/actual-server:26.9.0	5006	actual_data -> /data

Environment variables

This template sets no environment variables.

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 Actual Budget with Levelrail

In the dashboard, open Apps, choose New app, then Browse templates, and select Actual Budget. Review the Compose body and deploy.

With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy actual-budget --name my-actual-budget

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

More Finance templates

• Actual Budget
• Budge
• Dolibarr
• Firefly III
• Ghostfolio
• Invoice Ninja

All templates are listed in the self-host gallery.