gathio
★ 466GNU General Public License v3.03 Containers — 3 containers — light hosting footprintNeeds MongoDB11 active committers (12mo)
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Gathio is an event hosting platform designed for privacy-conscious and federated use. The README presents it as a simple service for creating and managing events, with a public flagship instance...
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Features
- event hosting
- federated deployment
- privacy-first design
- self-hosted instances
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 3, 2026
- Created
- Jul 25, 2019
- Runtime / Stack
- NodejsDocker
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: Optional
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓3 Containers — light hosting footprintRuns as 3 containers
Run gathio with Docker Compose
Compose file from the gathio project repository.
3 services · database: mongo · infra: mongo
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (10 volumes)
docker-compose.yml · @ 77c1678 · scanned Sep 23, 2026
volumes:
mongodb_data_db:
services:
gathio:
container_name: gathio-app
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile
links:
- mongo
environment:
- NODE_ENV=production
ports:
- 3000:3000
volumes:
# The path to Gathio's config folder - change to match your system
- ./gathio-docker/config:/app/config
# The path to Gathio's static, public pages including instance description
# and privacy policy - change to match your system
- ./gathio-docker/static:/app/static
# The path to Gathio's user-uploaded event images folder - change to match your system
- ./gathio-docker/images:/app/public/events
# Use Dockerfile default CMD (npm run start); build already performed in multi-stage.
gathio-dev:
container_name: gathio-app-dev
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile.dev
links:
- mongo
ports:
- 3001:3000
environment:
- NODE_ENV=development
volumes:
- ./gathio-docker/config:/app/config
- ./gathio-docker/static:/app/static
- ./gathio-docker/images:/app/public/events
- ./src:/app/src
- ./views:/app/views
- ./locales:/app/locales
command: pnpm run dev
mongo:
container_name: gathio-db
image: mongo:latest
volumes:
- mongodb_data_db:/data/db
This file may be out of date. Check the gathio documentation for current setup steps.
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