rw-photonix

Overview

Photonix is a photo management application that streamlines the process of storing, presenting and re-discovering photos. Once set up it will ingest all the photos in your collection and start building up an image database of everything you could want to search and filter by. It makes your entire collection available to you, whichever device you’re using — as long as you can get to a web browser.

Requirements

PostgreSQL database and redis cache

Runtime arguments

Web UI: http://[IP]:[PORT:80]/
Network: bridge
Privileged: false

Template configuration

Webui PortPorttcp

External WebUI Port

Target: 80
Default: 8080

PhotosPathrw

Container Path: /data/photos

Target: /data/photos
Default: /mnt/user

Raw PhotosPathrw

Container Path: /data/raw-photos-processed

Target: /data/raw-photos-processed

CachePathrw

Container Path: /data/cache

Target: /data/cache

ModelsPathrw

Container Path: /data/models

Target: /data/models

EnvironmentVariable

(prd or dev) In prd mode, running code and services are as optimised as possible. Running in dev mode enables features like Webpack/React hot module reloading (HMR), Django Runserver (code auto-reloading), Storybook server etc.

Target: ENV
Default: prd

Demo ModeVariable

(0 or 1) Starts the environment with a demo user account, library and downloads some demo photos. This is how the demo at https://demo.photonix.org/ runs

Target: DEMO
Default: 0

Sample DataVariable

(0 or 1) Creates same account, library and photos as in DEMO mode but still allows you to make modifying changes as a user (most useful for developers).

Target: SAMPLE_DATA
Default: 0

Admin UsernameVariable

Creates a username for the admin user on first run

Target: ADMIN_USERNAME
Default: admin

Admin PasswordVariable

Sets password for the admin user on first run. If this is set but ADMIN_USERNAME is not, the username will be admin

Target: ADMIN_PASSWORD
Default: admin

Postgres HostVariable

Host name for Postgres database instance.

Target: POSTGRES_HOST
Default: photonix_postgres11

Postgres DatabaseVariable

Database name for Postgres database instance, will be auto-created on first run if it doesn't exist.

Target: POSTGRES_DB
Default: photonix

Postgres UserVariable

Username for Postgres database.

Target: POSTGRES_USER
Default: postgres

Postgres PasswordVariable

Password for Postgres database.

Target: POSTGRES_PASSWORD
Default: postgres

Postgres PortVariable

Port for Postgres database.

Target: POSTGRES_PORT
Default: 5432

Redis HostVariable

Redis hostname, used for resource locking.

Target: REDIS_HOST
Default: photonix_redis

Redis PortVariable

Redis port number.

Target: REDIS_PORT
Default: 6379

Redis DatabaseVariable

Redis database number.

Target: REDIS_DB
Default: 0

Allowed HostsVariable

Restricts access for Django backend to be accessed from just a certain hostname.

Target: ALLOWED_HOSTS
Default: *

Django Secret KeyVariable

Sets value for Django to use as a secret key (sessions, hashing, signing etc.). By default we automatically generate a cryptographically secure key on first run and store it in Redis for future.

Target: DJANGO_SECRET_KEY

Log LevelVariable

Determines what level of logging to output to terminal.

Target: LOG_LEVEL
Default: INFO

Django Log LevelVariable

Determines what level of Django logging to output to terminal.

Target: DJANGO_LOG_LEVEL
Default: WARNING

Links

Template Support Docker Hub

Details

Repository

photonixapp/photonix

Registry

https://hub.docker.com/r/photonixapp/photonix/

Last Updated2026-04-10

First Seen2021-08-18

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