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Mealie
Container
A self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner
Image details
Source details
Configuration
TypeContainerlinuxhkotel/mealie:v0.4.39925:9000/tcp/app/data : /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/mealiePUID=1000PGID=1000TZ=America/New_YorkWEB_CONCURRENCY=2MAX_WORKERS=8RECIPE_PUBLIC=trueRECIPE_SHOW_NUTRITION=trueRECIPE_SHOW_ASSETS=trueRECIPE_LANDSCAPE_VIEW=trueRECIPE_DISABLE_COMMENTS=falseRECIPE_DISABLE_AMOUNT=falseunless-stoppedTemplate by novaspirit
Notes
Check our Github page: https://github.com/pi-hosted/pi-hosted
Official Webpage: https://hay-kot.github.io/mealie/
Official Docker Documentation: https://hay-kot.github.io/mealie/documentation/getting-started/install/
Default Credentials: Username: changeme@email.com Password: MyPassword. Documentation is Available here.
Standalone Install
Select an install method, to see config/commands for deploying Mealie
Install on Portainer
Import all app templates into your Portainer instance, for easy 1-click deploys
- Ensure both Docker and Portainer are installed, and up-to-date
- Log into your Portainer web UI
- Under Settings → App Templates, paste the below URL
- Head to Home → App Templates, and the list of apps will show up
- Select Mealie, fill in any config options, and hit Deploy
Template Import URL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lissy93/portainer-templates/main/templates.json
Show Me
More install options in our documentation, or see hay-kot/mealie for app-specific guidance.
Github
https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealieDocumentation
https://nightly.mealie.io/Serve Mealie on your own domain behind Caddy, Nginx or Traefik. Fill in your domain and copy the result. It's a starting point, some apps need their own base URL or extra headers set too.
Proxying mealie.example.com to http://mealie:9000
Add this to your Caddyfile
mealie.example.com {
reverse_proxy http://mealie:9000
}Check the logs first
Nine times out of ten the logs tell you exactly what went wrong.
- In Portainer, go to Containers, click the container, then Logs. Or run
docker logs mealie - Exit codes help too:
137means killed, usually out of memory.126or127means the command inside the image is broken.
Port already in use
If deployment fails with "Bind for 0.0.0.0:9925 failed: port is already allocated", something else on your server is using that port.
- Find what's using it:
sudo ss -tlnp | grep :9925 - Stop the other service, or pick a different host port. In
9925:9000only the left number is yours to change, the right one belongs to the app.
Running but the page won't load
The container is up but nothing appears in your browser.
- Use your server's real IP:
http://your-server-ip:9925. The 0.0.0.0 link Portainer shows isn't a real address. - Give it a minute after first deploy, mealie can take a while to initialise.
- Make sure your firewall allows the port, e.g.
sudo ufw allow 9925
Permission denied on volumes
If the logs show "permission denied", the app can't write to its data folder on the host.
- Fix the ownership:
sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/mealie - Or set the
PUIDandPGIDvariables (defaults 1000:1000) to match your own user, found withid $USER
Image won't pull
Test the pull directly on the host: docker pull hkotel/mealie:v0.4.3
- "manifest unknown" means the tag no longer exists.
- "toomanyrequests" is the Docker Hub rate limit. Log in with
docker loginto raise it. - "no space left on device" means a full disk. Reclaim space with
docker system prune
"exec format error"
This means the image was built for a different CPU architecture than your server.
- This image supports:
amd64, arm64 - Check yours with
uname -m: x86_64 is amd64, aarch64 is arm64. Raspberry Pi and other ARM boards are the usual culprits.
Container keeps restarting
The unless-stopped restart policy relaunches the app after every crash, so the real error can scroll past.
- Check the logs right after a restart, the last few lines before it died are the useful ones.
- Get the exit code with
docker inspect mealie --format '{{.State.ExitCode}}' - Still stuck? Redeploy once with the restart policy set to
noso the failure stays visible.
Raise an issue
Found something which isn't working as it should? Here's how to report it.
- Bug within the app: Open an issue on hay-kot/mealie
- Template not working: Open an issue on novaspirit/pi-hosted
- This website not working: Open an issue on lissy93/portainer-templates
A single container
Mealie runs as one container, the simplest kind of app here. Just the one image to pull and nothing else wired up alongside it.
The app image
An image is the app packed up ready to go, everything Mealie needs bundled into one download. This template pulls hkotel/mealie:v0.4.3, which Docker fetches once (about 412 MB) and then starts your own copy from.
Where the image comes from
Docker pulls its images from registries, public libraries of ready-built apps. Mealie's comes from Docker Hub, published by hkotel.
Version tags
The bit after the colon in the image name is the version tag. This one pins v0.4.3, so every redeploy gives you that exact build until you bump it yourself.
Which machines it runs on
Every image is built for particular CPU types. This one ships for amd64, arm64, so it runs on both regular x86 servers and ARM boards like a Raspberry Pi.
Ports
A port is the door the app answers on. A mapping like 9925:9000 means it's reachable on port 9925 of your server, where the left number is yours to change and the right one belongs to the app. Once it's running, open http://your-server-ip:9925 in a browser. It opens:
9925:9000, likely the web interface
Volumes
A volume is where Mealie keeps its files so they survive an update or a restart. Without one, anything it saves would sit inside the container and vanish the moment it's recreated. This template mounts:
/app/datafrom/portainer/Files/AppData/Config/mealieon the host
Environment variables
Environment variables are the settings you hand over when you deploy, things like a password or a timezone. Mealie takes 11 of them, all with defaults you can leave alone or tweak:
PUID, defaults to1000PGID, defaults to1000TZ, defaults toAmerica/New_YorkWEB_CONCURRENCY, defaults to2MAX_WORKERS, defaults to8RECIPE_PUBLIC, defaults totrueRECIPE_SHOW_NUTRITION, defaults totrueRECIPE_SHOW_ASSETS, defaults totrueRECIPE_LANDSCAPE_VIEW, defaults totrueRECIPE_DISABLE_COMMENTS, defaults tofalseRECIPE_DISABLE_AMOUNT, defaults tofalse
Restart policy
The restart policy here is unless-stopped, so Docker restarts Mealie after a crash or reboot, but leaves it off when you stop it on purpose. You can change this on the deploy screen. The choices are no (never restart), on-failure (only after a crash), unless-stopped (restart unless you stop it), and always (bring it back no matter what).
Users and permissions
The PUID and PGID settings tell it which user and group to act as on your host. Point them at your own account (find yours with id $USER) so the files it writes into your mounted folders come out owned by you rather than root.
Networking
Nothing custom is set, so Mealie sits on Docker's default bridge network: its own private space that reaches the outside world only through the ports it publishes.
Container name
Once it's deployed, Portainer names the container mealie. That's what you'll spot in the containers list and use in commands like docker logs mealie.
Platform
The platform is linux, the kind of system the container is built to run on. Docker and Portainer handle this on a normal Linux server.
Open source license
Mealie is open source, released under the AGPL-3.0 license. In plain terms the code is out in the open, so you're free to run it and change it to fit what you need.
Portainer app templates
Zooming out, this whole page comes from a Portainer app template: a short recipe telling Portainer how to set Mealie up. Add the template list to Portainer once, then deploying Mealie is a click rather than a wall of config.