Self-host Kavita with Docker

A fast, feature-rich reader server for manga, comics, and ebooks.

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

Recommended memory: about 256 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
`kavita`	`jvmilazz0/kavita:0.9.1`	5000	`kavita_config -> /kavita/config` `kavita_data -> /manga`

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.

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

With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy kavita --name my-kavita

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.