Nextcloud Docker image with advanced features.

• Features
• Build locally
• Image
• Environment variables
  • General
  • Nextcloud
  • Cron
  • Previews generator
• Volumes
• Ports
• Usage
  • Docker Compose
  • Command line
• Upgrade
• Notes
  • First installation
  • OCC command
  • Cron sidecar
  • Previews generator sidecar
  • Email server
  • Custom configuration
  • Redis cache
  • Running in a subdir
• Contributing
• License

• Run as non-root user
• Multi-platform image
• Tarball authenticity checked during building process
• Data, config, user apps and themes persistence in the same folder
• Automatic installation
• Cron task for Nextcloud background jobs as a sidecar cron container
• Execute pre-generation of previews through Preview Generator plugin
• OPCache enabled to store precompiled script bytecode in shared memory
• APCu installed and configured
• Memcached and Redis also enabled to enhance server performance
• Database connectors MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQLite3 enabled
• Exif, IMAP, LDAP, FTP, GMP, SMB enabled (required for specific apps)
• FFmpeg, iconv, Imagick installed for preview generation
• s6-overlay as process supervisor
• Traefik as reverse proxy and creation/renewal of Let's Encrypt certificates (see this template)
• msmtpd SMTP relay image to send emails
• Redis for caching
• MariaDB as database instance

git clone https://github.com/crazy-max/docker-nextcloud.git
cd docker-nextcloud

# Build image and output to docker (default)
docker buildx bake

# Build multi-platform image
docker buildx bake image-all

Following platforms for this image are available:

$ docker buildx imagetools inspect crazymax/nextcloud --format "{{json .Manifest}}" | \
  jq -r '.manifests[] | select(.platform.os != null and .platform.os != "unknown") | .platform | "\(.os)/\(.architecture)\(if .variant then "/" + .variant else "" end)"'

linux/amd64
linux/arm64
linux/ppc64le
linux/riscv64
linux/s390x

• TZ: The timezone assigned to the container (default UTC)
• PUID: Nextcloud user id (default 1000)
• PGID: Nextcloud group id (default 1000)
• MEMORY_LIMIT: PHP memory limit (default 512M)
• UPLOAD_MAX_SIZE: Upload max size (default 512M)
• PM_MAX_CHILDREN: Maximum number of child processes to be created for PHP-FPM (default 20)
• BODY_TIMEOUT: Defines a timeout for reading client request body (default 300s)
• CLEAR_ENV: Clear environment in FPM workers (default yes)
• OPCACHE_MEM_SIZE: PHP OpCache memory consumption (default 128)
• LISTEN_IPV6: Enable IPv6 for Nginx (default true)
• APC_SHM_SIZE: APCu memory size (default 128M)
• REAL_IP_FROM: Trusted addresses that are known to send correct replacement addresses (default 0.0.0.0/32)
• REAL_IP_HEADER: Request header field whose value will be used to replace the client address (default X-Forwarded-For)
• LOG_IP_VAR: Use another variable to retrieve the remote IP address for access log_format on Nginx. (default remote_addr)

• HSTS_HEADER: HTTP Strict Transport Security header value (default max-age=15768000; includeSubDomains)
• XFRAME_OPTS_HEADER: X-Frame-Options header value (default SAMEORIGIN)
• RP_HEADER: Referrer Policy header value (default strict-origin)
• DB_TYPE: Database type (mysql, pgsql or sqlite) (default sqlite)
• DB_NAME: Database name (default nextcloud)
• DB_USER: Username for database (default nextcloud)
• DB_PASSWORD: Password for database user
• DB_HOST: Database host (default db)
• DB_TIMEOUT: Time in seconds after which we stop trying to reach the database server. Only used for mysql and pgsql db type (default 60)

• SIDECAR_CRON: Set to 1 to enable sidecar cron mode (default 0)
• CRON_PERIOD: Periodically execute Nextcloud cron (eg. */5 * * * *)

• SIDECAR_PREVIEWGEN: Set to 1 to enable sidecar previews generator mode (default 0)
• PREVIEWGEN_PERIOD: Periodically execute pre-generation of previews (eg. 0 * * * *)

• /data: Contains config, data folders, installed user apps (not core ones), session, themes, tmp folders
• /data/config/*.config.php: Additional Nextcloud configuration files loaded from the persistent config directory

• 8000: HTTP port

Docker compose is the recommended way to run this image. Copy the content of folder examples/compose in /var/nextcloud/ on your host for example. Edit the compose and env files with your preferences and run the following commands:

docker compose up -d
docker compose logs -f

You can also use the following minimal command:

docker run -d -p 8000:8000 --name nextcloud \
  -v "$(pwd)/data:/data" \
  crazymax/nextcloud:latest

To upgrade to the latest version of Nextcloud, pull the newer image and launch the container. Nextcloud will upgrade automatically:

docker compose pull
docker compose up -d

If you run the container for the first time, the installation will be automatic using the DB_* environment variables. Then open your browser to configure your admin account.

If you want to use the occ command to perform common server operations like manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more, type:

docker compose exec nextcloud occ

If you want to enable the cronjob, you have to run a "sidecar" container (see cron service in compose.yml example) or run a simple container like this:

docker run -d --name nextcloud_cron \
  --env-file $(pwd)/nextcloud.env \
  -e "SIDECAR_CRON=1" \
  -e "CRON_PERIOD=*/5 * * * *" \
  -v "$(pwd)/data:/data" \
  crazymax/nextcloud:latest

And do not forget to choose Cron as background jobs:

To execute pre-generation of previews through the Preview Generator plugin, you have to run a "sidecar" container (see cron service in compose.yml example) or run a simple container like this:

docker run -d --name nextcloud_previewgen \
  --env-file $(pwd)/nextcloud.env \
  -e "SIDECAR_PREVIEWGEN=1" \
  -e "PREVIEWGEN_PERIOD=0 * * * *" \
  -v "$(pwd)/data:/data" \
  crazymax/nextcloud:latest

You can use our SMTP relay msmtpd service published on port 2500 and declared in our compose.yml:

Nextcloud can load additional *.config.php files from its config directory. Use /data/config/<name>.config.php for custom settings instead of editing /data/config/config.php, which is managed by Nextcloud and this image.

These files are merged with config.php and take precedence over values defined there. You can inspect the merged configuration with:

docker compose exec nextcloud occ config:list system --private

Do not store backup files ending with .config.php in /data/config, because Nextcloud will load them as active configuration.

Redis is recommended, alongside APCu to make Nextcloud faster. If you want to enable Redis, deploy a redis container (see compose file) and create /data/config/redis.config.php:

<?php

$CONFIG = [
    'memcache.local' => '\OC\Memcache\APCu',
    'memcache.distributed' => '\OC\Memcache\Redis',
    'memcache.locking' => '\OC\Memcache\Redis',
    'redis' => [
        'host' => 'redis',
        'port' => 6379,
    ],
];

This image does not rewrite requests for subdir deployments. The bundled Nginx configuration expects requests to arrive at the root path it serves and emits root-relative redirects.

If you expose Nextcloud below a path prefix like /nextcloud, configure the reverse proxy to own that routing. For example, strip /nextcloud before forwarding requests to this container and handle any public redirects for that prefix in the proxy configuration.

Configure Nextcloud's own URLs separately with a custom configuration file such as /data/config/proxy.config.php:

<?php

$CONFIG = [
    'overwritewebroot' => '/nextcloud',
];

CalDAV/CardDAV discovery uses root /.well-known/... URLs. If your reverse proxy only routes /nextcloud/... to this container, also route those /.well-known requests to Nextcloud or redirect them at the proxy to /nextcloud/remote.php/dav/.

Remember to remove includeSubDomains from HSTS_HEADER if the prefixed deployment does not cover all subdomains.

Want to contribute? Awesome! The most basic way to show your support is to star the project, or to raise issues. You can also support this project by becoming a sponsor on GitHub or by making a PayPal donation to ensure this journey continues indefinitely!

Thanks again for your support, it is much appreciated! 🙏

MIT. See LICENSE for more details.