Outline
★ 40.9kA self-hosted alternative to Notion, Evernote
busl-1-1Source-Available — Not OSS2 Containers — 2 containers — light hosting footprintSourceNeeds Postgres12+ active committers (12mo)
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Outline is a team knowledge base application whose source code is hosted in this repository. The README presents it as a collaborative product for organizing internal documentation, and it points...
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Features
- collaborative knowledge base
- hosted version
- local development setup
- production self-hosting
- logging/debugging controls
- API endpoint testing
- database migrations
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 11, 2026
- Created
- May 22, 2016
- Install Methods
- source
- Requirements
- ReactNode.jsSequelizeVitest
- API
- REST
- Runtime / Stack
- NodejsDocker
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: Optional
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓2 Containers — light hosting footprintRuns as 2 containers
Run Outline with Docker Compose
Compose file from the Outline project repository.
2 services · database: postgres · infra: redis, postgres
no resource limits declared
docker-compose.yml · @ 4126b94 · scanned Jun 4, 2026
services:
redis:
image: redis
ports:
- "127.0.0.1:6379:6379"
user: "redis:redis"
postgres:
image: postgres
ports:
- "127.0.0.1:5432:5432"
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: user
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: pass
POSTGRES_DB: outline
user: "postgres:postgres"
This file may be out of date. Check the Outline documentation for current setup steps.
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