Self-host Typesense with Docker

A fast, typo-tolerant search engine API built as a lighter alternative to Elasticsearch.

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

Project site: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/install-typesense.html.

Recommended memory: about 512 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
typesense	typesense/typesense:30.2	8108	typesense_data -> /data

Environment variables

Service	Variable	Value
typesense	TYPESENSE_API_KEY	Generated at deploy
typesense	TYPESENSE_DATA_DIR	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 Typesense with Levelrail

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

With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy typesense --name my-typesense

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

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