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Octobox

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GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Source — No Paywall3 Containers — 3 containers — light hosting footprintDockerNeeds Postgres7+ active committers (12mo)

About

Octobox is a web application for organizing GitHub notifications. It is aimed at developers and maintainers who deal with high notification volume and want better tools than GitHub’s built-in inbox....

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Features

  • archived notification state
  • starred notifications
  • enhanced notification details
  • filtering by repository, organization, type, action, state, CI status, and reason
  • prefix search filters
  • keyboard shortcuts
  • thread viewing
  • REST API
  • pinned searches
  • web extension support

Details

Last Updated
Oct 10, 2026
Created
Dec 16, 2016
Install Methods
docker
Requirements
GitHub web notifications enabledPlaywright Chromium for system testsRuby on Rails
Authentication
local
API
REST
Runtime / Stack
RubyDocker
Privacy & Independence
Cloud: Optional
User Model
Multi-User
Deployment

Deployment: Docker Compose ✓3 Containers — light hosting footprintRuns as 3 containers

Run Octobox with Docker Compose

Compose file from the Octobox project repository.

3 services · database: postgres · infra: postgres, redis

no resource limits declared

needs persistent storage (1 volume)

docker-compose.yml · @ 58b2795 · scanned Jun 13, 2026

# This file contains a *development* configuration for running Octobox.
#
# * You can use this file as-is to give Octobox a try on your local machine; it pulls
#   images from Docker Hub and uses the default 'development' environment.
#
# * You can use this file as an example for your own production configuration, either
#   by overriding it or just creating your own from scratch. 'docker-compose.override.yml'
#   is gitignored for your convenience.
#
# * Similarly, if you're a developer who has cloned the Octobox repository to
#   actively develop Octobox, you can override this file by adding the following to
#   a docker-compose.override.yml:
#
#   version: '3'
#   services:
#     app:
#       build:
#         context: .
#         dockerfile: Dockerfile
#
# This will build your own image from your local filesystem to test changes.
# Using `$ docker-compose up` will automatically merge the override file in to
# this one.
#
version: '3'
services:
  app:
    image: octoboxio/octobox:latest
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    environment:
      - RAILS_ENV=development
      - GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=${GITHUB_CLIENT_ID}
      - GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=${GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET}
      - OCTOBOX_DATABASE_NAME=postgres
      - OCTOBOX_DATABASE_USERNAME=postgres
      - OCTOBOX_DATABASE_PASSWORD=development
      - OCTOBOX_DATABASE_HOST=database.service.octobox.internal
      - REDIS_URL=redis://redis.service.octobox.internal
    networks:
      - internal
    depends_on:
      - database.service.octobox.internal
      - redis.service.octobox.internal

  database.service.octobox.internal:
    image: postgres:16-alpine
    volumes:
      - pg_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    networks:
      - internal
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=development

  redis.service.octobox.internal:
    image: redis:7-alpine
    networks:
      - internal

volumes:
  pg_data:

networks:
  internal:
    driver: bridge

This file may be out of date. Check the Octobox documentation for current setup steps.

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