Self-host Rocket.Chat with Docker

A full-featured, self-hosted team chat platform with video calls and app integrations.

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

Project site: https://docs.rocket.chat.

Recommended memory: about 1024 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
mongo	mongo:7	none	rocketchat_mongo_data -> /data/db
rocketchat	rocketchat/rocket.chat:8.0.1	3000	none

Environment variables

Service	Variable	Value
rocketchat	MONGO_OPLOG_URL	Preset in the template
rocketchat	MONGO_URL	Preset in the template
rocketchat	ROOT_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.

Deploy Rocket.Chat with Levelrail

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

With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy rocketchat --name my-rocketchat

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

More Communication templates

• Apache Answer
• Apprise API
• Campfire
• Chatwoot
• FreeScout
• Gotify

All templates are listed in the self-host gallery.