bloglite
★ 328MIT LicenseOpen Source — No PaywallSingle Container — single container — minimal hosting footprintComposeNo external DB1 active committer (12mo)
About
bloglite is a self-hostable microblogging service for people who want a simple place to write short posts, save notes, and later find them again. It is positioned as a Twitter/Bluesky-like...
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Features
- Markdown posts
- syntax highlighting
- math expressions
- desktop and mobile publishing
- file and image uploads
- plain-text backups
- built-in search
- POSSE syndication
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 18, 2026
- Created
- Apr 13, 2025
- Install Methods
- docker-compose
- Requirements
- SQLite database
- Authentication
- local
- API
- REST
- Backup & Export
- file-backupnative-exportapi-export
- Runtime / Stack
- Docker
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud Required
- Deployment
Deployment: Compose via READMESingle Container — minimal hosting footprintsingle container
Run bloglite with Docker Compose
Compose example from the bloglite README.
1 service
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (1 volume)
scanned Oct 19, 2026
services:
bloglite:
image: 'zot.huijzer.xyz/bloglite:3'
container_name: 'bloglite'
environment:
BLOGLITE_USERNAME: 'john'
BLOGLITE_DOMAIN: 'example.com'
env_file:
# Contains `BLOGLITE_PASSWORD="<PASSWORD>"`.
- 'BLOGLITE_PASSWORD.env'
ports:
- '3000:3000'
volumes:
# Stores the SQLite database.
- './data:/data:rw'
healthcheck:
test: ['CMD', '/bloglite', 'check-health']
logging:
driver: 'json-file'
options:
max-size: '5m'
max-file: '10'
restart: 'unless-stopped'
This file may be out of date. Check the bloglite documentation for current setup steps.
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