Budibase
★ 28.3kA self-hosted alternative to Airtable, Make Integromat
GNU General Public License v3.0Open Core — Some Features Paid2 Containers — 2 containers — light hosting footprintDocker · Compose · K8s +1Needs Pgvector9+ active committers (12mo)
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Budibase is an open-source operations platform designed to help teams build AI-driven agents, apps, and automations. It is aimed at organizations that want to reduce manual operational work by...
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Features
- AI agents
- workflow automation
- approvals
- record creation
- app updates
- team notifications
- database integrations
- AI model integrations
- business app integrations
- user management
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 11, 2026
- Created
- Jun 7, 2019
- Install Methods
- dockerdocker-composekubernetessource
- Requirements
- Digital Ocean
- API
- REST
- Runtime / Stack
- NodejsDockerK8S
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: Optional
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓2 Containers — light hosting footprintRuns as 2 containers
Run Budibase with Docker Compose
Compose file from the Budibase project repository.
2 services · database: pgvector · infra: pgvector · 1 unclassified (pgadmin4)
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (1 volume)
hosting/vectordb/pgvector/docker-compose.yml · @ e5acde1 · scanned Sep 24, 2026
version: "3.8"
services:
pgvector:
container_name: pgvector
image: pgvector/pgvector:pg16
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: root
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: root
POSTGRES_DB: main
ports:
- "5432:5432"
volumes:
- pg_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data/
pgadmin:
container_name: pgvector-pgadmin
image: dpage/pgadmin4
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL: root@root.com
PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD: root
ports:
- "5050:80"
volumes:
pg_data:
This file may be out of date. Check the Budibase documentation for current setup steps.
Open-source health
FOSS with issues
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