Self-host Documenso with Docker

An open-source document signing platform, a self-hosted alternative to DocuSign.

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

Recommended memory: about 512 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
`database`	`postgres:17`	none	`documenso_postgresql_data -> /var/lib/postgresql/data`
`documenso`	`documenso/documenso:v1.12.10`	3000	none

Service	Variable	Value
`database`	`POSTGRES_DB`	Preset in the template
`database`	`POSTGRES_PASSWORD`	Generated at deploy
`database`	`POSTGRES_USER`	Preset in the template
`documenso`	`CERT_VALID_DAYS`	Preset in the template
`documenso`	`NEXTAUTH_SECRET`	Generated at deploy
`documenso`	`NEXTAUTH_URL`	Preset in the template
`documenso`	`NEXT_PRIVATE_DATABASE_URL`	Generated at deploy
`documenso`	`NEXT_PRIVATE_DIRECT_DATABASE_URL`	Generated at deploy
`documenso`	`NEXT_PRIVATE_ENCRYPTION_KEY`	Generated at deploy
`documenso`	`NEXT_PRIVATE_ENCRYPTION_SECONDARY_KEY`	Generated at deploy
`documenso`	`NEXT_PRIVATE_SIGNING_LOCAL_FILE_PASSPHRASE`	Generated at deploy
`documenso`	`NEXT_PRIVATE_SIGNING_LOCAL_FILE_PATH`	Preset in the template
`documenso`	`NEXT_PRIVATE_SIGNING_TRANSPORT`	Preset in the template
`documenso`	`NEXT_PUBLIC_WEBAPP_URL`	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.

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

With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy documenso --name my-documenso

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

All templates are listed in the self-host gallery.