Self-host Drupal with Docker

A mature, flexible CMS for structured content, multilingual sites, and large editorial teams.

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

Project site: https://www.drupal.org/docs.

Recommended memory: about 1024 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
db	postgres:16-alpine	none	drupal_db_data -> /var/lib/postgresql/data
drupal	drupal:11-apache	80	drupal_modules -> /var/www/html/modules drupal_profiles -> /var/www/html/profiles drupal_themes -> /var/www/html/themes drupal_sites -> /var/www/html/sites

Environment variables

Service	Variable	Value
db	POSTGRES_DB	Preset in the template
db	POSTGRES_PASSWORD	Generated at deploy
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 Drupal with Levelrail

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

With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy drupal --name my-drupal

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

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All templates are listed in the self-host gallery.