imagegenius/immich

Immich is a high performance self-hosted photo and video backup solution.

Supported Architectures

We use Docker manifest for cross-platform compatibility. More details can be found on Docker's website.

To obtain the appropriate image for your architecture, simply pull ghcr.io/imagegenius/immich:latest. Alternatively, you can also obtain specific architecture images by using tags.

This image supports the following architectures:

Architecture	Available	Tag
x86-64	✅	amd64-<version tag>
arm64	✅	arm64v8-<version tag>
armhf	❌

Version Tags

This image offers different versions via tags. Be cautious when using unstable or development tags, and read their descriptions carefully.

Tag	Available	Description
latest	✅	Latest Immich release with an Ubuntu base.
noml	✅	Latest Immich release with an Alpine base. Machine-learning and Search with Typesense are completely removed, making it a very lightweight image.

Application Setup

The WebUI can be accessed at http://your-ip:8080 Follow the wizard to set up Immich.

To use Immich, you need to have PostgreSQL 14/15 server set up externally, and Redis set up externally or within the container using a docker mod.

To set up redis using the docker mod, use the following:

Set DOCKER_MODS=imagegenius/mods:universal-redis, and REDIS_HOSTNAME to localhost.

Machine Learning operations tend to be CPU-intensive. If you're operating Immich on less capable hardware, we recommend disabling this feature. You can easily do so by setting DISABLE_IMMICH_MACHINE_LEARNING to true.

Search functionality is powered by Typesense, which requires a CPU compatible with AVX. If your CPU does not support AVX, you can disable the search feature by setting DISABLE_TYPESENSE to true.

Take note that when CUDA_ACCELERATION is set to true, container startup times will be longer. This is because it triggers a force upgrade of the CUDA pip packages every time the container restarts. 'TAG OBJECTS' and 'ENCODE CLIP' jobs will leverage GPU acceleration, however, the 'RECOGNIZE FACES' job won't utilize GPU acceleration.

If you desire GPU acceleration for all your machine learning jobs, you'll need to set up a new immich-cuda-node Docker. All the necessary instructions to do this are available on the immich-cuda-node repository.

Usage

Example snippets to start creating a container:

Docker Compose

---
version: "2.1"
services:
  immich:
    image: ghcr.io/imagegenius/immich:latest
    container_name: immich
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      - DB_HOSTNAME=192.168.1.x
      - DB_USERNAME=postgres
      - DB_PASSWORD=postgres
      - DB_DATABASE_NAME=immich
      - REDIS_HOSTNAME=192.168.1.x
      - DISABLE_MACHINE_LEARNING=false #optional
      - DISABLE_TYPESENSE=false #optional
      - DB_PORT=5432 #optional
      - REDIS_PORT=6379 #optional
      - REDIS_PASSWORD= #optional
      - CUDA_ACCELERATION=false #optional
    volumes:
      - path_to_appdata:/config
      - path_to_photos:/photos
      - path_to_machine-learning:/config/machine-learning #optional
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    restart: unless-stopped
# This container requires an external application to be run separately to be run separately.
# Redis:
  redis:
    image: redis
    ports:
      - 6379:6379
    container_name: redis
# PostgreSQL 14:
  postgres14:
    image: postgres:14
    ports:
      - 5432:5432
    container_name: postgres14
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: postgres
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
      POSTGRES_DB: immich
    volumes:
      - path_to_postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data

Docker CLI (Click here for more info)

docker run -d \
  --name=immich \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Etc/UTC \
  -e DB_HOSTNAME=192.168.1.x \
  -e DB_USERNAME=postgres \
  -e DB_PASSWORD=postgres \
  -e DB_DATABASE_NAME=immich \
  -e REDIS_HOSTNAME=192.168.1.x \
  -e DISABLE_MACHINE_LEARNING=false `#optional` \
  -e DISABLE_TYPESENSE=false `#optional` \
  -e DB_PORT=5432 `#optional` \
  -e REDIS_PORT=6379 `#optional` \
  -e REDIS_PASSWORD= `#optional` \
  -e CUDA_ACCELERATION=false `#optional` \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -v path_to_appdata:/config \
  -v path_to_photos:/photos \
  -v path_to_machine-learning:/config/machine-learning `#optional` \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  ghcr.io/imagegenius/immich:latest

# This container requires an external application to be run separately.
# Redis:
docker run -d \
  --name=redis \
  -p 6379:6379 \
  redis

# PostgreSQL 14:
docker run -d \
  --name=postgres14 \
  -e POSTGRES_USER=postgres \
  -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres \
  -e POSTGRES_DB=immich \
  -v path_to_postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data \
  -p 5432:5432 \
  postgres:14

Variables

To configure the container, pass variables at runtime using the format <external>:<internal>. For instance, -p 8080:80 exposes port 80 inside the container, making it accessible outside the container via the host's IP on port 8080.

Variable	Description
-p 8080	WebUI Port
-e PUID=1000	UID for permissions - see below for explanation
-e PGID=1000	GID for permissions - see below for explanation
-e TZ=Etc/UTC	Specify a timezone to use, see this list.
-e DB_HOSTNAME=192.168.1.x	PostgreSQL Host
-e DB_USERNAME=postgres	PostgreSQL Username
-e DB_PASSWORD=postgres	PostgreSQL Password
-e DB_DATABASE_NAME=immich	PostgreSQL Database Name
-e REDIS_HOSTNAME=192.168.1.x	Redis Hostname
-e DISABLE_MACHINE_LEARNING=false	Set to true to disable machine learning
-e DISABLE_TYPESENSE=false	Set to true to disable Typesense (disables searching completely!)
-e DB_PORT=5432	PostgreSQL Port
-e REDIS_PORT=6379	Redis Port
-e REDIS_PASSWORD=	Redis password
-e CUDA_ACCELERATION=false	Set to true to enable CUDA Acceleration (NVIDIA GPU must be passed through! --gpus=all)
-v /config	Contains the logs, machine-learning models and Typesense data
-v /photos	Contains all the photos uploaded to Immich
-v /config/machine-learning	Store the machine-learning models (~800MB)

Umask for running applications

All of our images allow overriding the default umask setting for services started within the containers using the optional -e UMASK=022 option. Note that umask works differently than chmod and subtracts permissions based on its value, not adding. For more information, please refer to the Wikipedia article on umask here.

User / Group Identifiers

To avoid permissions issues when using volumes (-v flags) between the host OS and the container, you can specify the user (PUID) and group (PGID). Make sure that the volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify, and the issues will disappear.

Example: PUID=1000 and PGID=1000. To find your PUID and PGID, run id user.

  $ id username
    uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)

Updating the Container

Most of our images are static, versioned, and require an image update and container recreation to update the app. We do not recommend or support updating apps inside the container. Check the Application Setup section for recommendations for the specific image.

Instructions for updating containers:

Via Docker Compose

• Update all images: docker-compose pull
  • or update a single image: docker-compose pull immich
• Let compose update all containers as necessary: docker-compose up -d
  • or update a single container: docker-compose up -d immich
• You can also remove the old dangling images: docker image prune

Via Docker Run

• Update the image: docker pull ghcr.io/imagegenius/immich:latest
• Stop the running container: docker stop immich
• Delete the container: docker rm immich
• Recreate a new container with the same docker run parameters as instructed above (if mapped correctly to a host folder, your /config folder and settings will be preserved)
• You can also remove the old dangling images: docker image prune

Versions

• 23.05.23: - move to ubuntu lunar and support cuda acceleration for machine-learning
• 22.05.23: - deprecate postgresql docker mod
• 18.05.23: - add support for facial recognition
• 07.05.23: - remove unused JWT_SECRET env
• 13.04.23: - add variables to disable typesense and machine learning
• 10.04.23: - fix gunicorn
• 04.04.23: - use environment variables to set location of the photos folder
• 09.04.23: - Cache is downloaded to the host (/config/transformers)
• 01.04.23: - remove unused Immich environment variables
• 21.03.23: - Add service checks
• 05.03.23: - add typesense
• 27.02.23: - re-enable aarch64 with pre-release torch build
• 18.02.23: - use machine-learning with python
• 11.02.23: - use external app block
• 09.02.23: - Use Immich environment variables for immich services instead of hosts file
• 09.02.23: - execute CLI with the command immich
• 04.02.23: - shrink image
• 26.01.23: - add unraid migration to readme
• 26.01.23: - use find to apply chown to /app, excluding node_modules
• 26.01.23: - enable ci testing
• 24.01.23: - fix services starting prematurely, causing permission errors.
• 23.01.23: - add noml image to readme and add aarch64 image to readme, make github release stable
• 21.01.23: - BREAKING: Redis is removed. Update missing param_env_vars & opt_param_env_vars for redis & postgres
• 02.01.23: - Initial Release.