Mealie

Intuitive self-hosted recipe management app designed to be the best recipe management experience on the web.

Port	9000
Registry	ghcr.io/daemonless/mealie
Source	https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie
Website	https://mealie.io/

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
latest	Upstream Binary. Built from official release.	Most users. Matches Linux Docker behavior.

Prerequisites

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions.

Deployment

Podman Compose

services:
  mealie:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/mealie:latest"
    container_name: mealie
    environment:
      - BASE_URL=http://localhost:9000  # The base URL for the application (e.g. https://mealie.example.com)
      - PUID=1000  # User ID for the application process
      - PGID=1000  # Group ID for the application process
      - TZ=UTC  # Timezone for the container
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/mealie:/config"
    ports:
      - "9000:9000"
    restart: unless-stopped

AppJail Director

.env:

# .env

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=mealie
BASE_URL=http://localhost:9000
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
TZ=UTC

appjail-director.yml:

# appjail-director.yml

options:
  - virtualnet: ':<random> default'
  - nat:
services:
  mealie:
    name: mealie
    options:
      - container: 'boot args:--pull'
      - expose: '9000:9000 proto:tcp' \
    oci:
      user: root
      environment:
        - BASE_URL: !ENV '${BASE_URL}'
        - PUID: !ENV '${PUID}'
        - PGID: !ENV '${PGID}'
        - TZ: !ENV '${TZ}'
    volumes:
      - mealie: /config
volumes:
  mealie:
    device: '/path/to/containers/mealie'

Makejail:

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/mealie:${tag}

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Podman CLI

podman run -d --name mealie \
  -p 9000:9000 \
  -e BASE_URL=http://localhost:9000 \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -v /path/to/containers/mealie:/config \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/mealie:latest

AppJail

appjail oci run -Pd \
  -o overwrite=force \
  -o container="args:--pull" \
  -o virtualnet=":<random> default" \
  -o nat \
  -o expose="9000:9000 proto:tcp" \
  -e BASE_URL=http://localhost:9000 \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -o fstab="/path/to/containers/mealie /config <pseudofs>" \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/mealie:latest mealie

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Ansible

- name: Deploy mealie
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: mealie
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/mealie:latest"
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    env:
      BASE_URL: "http://localhost:9000"
      PUID: "1000"
      PGID: "1000"
      TZ: "UTC"
    ports:
      - "9000:9000"
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/mealie:/config"

Access at: http://localhost:9000

Parameters

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
BASE_URL	http://localhost:9000	The base URL for the application (e.g. https://mealie.example.com)
PUID	1000	User ID for the application process
PGID	1000	Group ID for the application process
TZ	UTC	Timezone for the container

Volumes

Path	Description
/config	Data directory (database, images)

Ports

Port	Protocol	Description
9000	TCP	Web UI

Using PostgreSQL

By default, Mealie uses SQLite. For better performance with multiple users, use PostgreSQL:

services:
  mealie:
    image: ghcr.io/daemonless/mealie:latest
    container_name: mealie
    environment:
      - BASE_URL=http://localhost:@MEALIE_PORT@
      - PUID=@PUID@
      - PGID=@PGID@
      - TZ=@TZ@
      - DB_ENGINE=postgres
      - POSTGRES_USER=mealie
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=changeme
      - POSTGRES_SERVER=localhost
      - POSTGRES_PORT=5432
      - POSTGRES_DB=mealie
    volumes:
      - "@CONTAINER_CONFIG_ROOT@/@MEALIE_CONFIG_PATH@:/config"
    ports:
      - "@MEALIE_PORT@:9000"
    depends_on:
      - postgres
    network_mode: host
    restart: unless-stopped

  postgres:
    image: ghcr.io/daemonless/postgres:latest
    container_name: mealie-postgres
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=mealie
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=changeme
      - POSTGRES_DB=mealie
    volumes:
      - "@CONTAINER_CONFIG_ROOT@/mealie-postgres:/config"
    network_mode: host
    restart: unless-stopped

Note: With network_mode: host, use localhost for POSTGRES_SERVER.

Migrating from Linux

SQLite: No issues, just copy your data.

PostgreSQL: You cannot copy the postgres data directory between Linux and FreeBSD due to locale incompatibilities. Use pg_dump/pg_restore instead:

# On Linux
podman exec mealie-postgres pg_dump -U mealie mealie > mealie.sql

# On FreeBSD (start fresh postgres first, then restore)
cat mealie.sql | podman exec -i mealie-postgres psql -U mealie -d mealie

See daemonless/postgres README for details.

Architectures: amd64 User: bsd (UID/GID via PUID/PGID, defaults to 1000:1000) Base: FreeBSD 15.1-latest

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