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Memos

Memos is a note taking app that somewhat mimics what Twitter looks like. Perfect to use as a personal news feed.

There is an official image for this service that we'll use: neosmemo/memos.

Pre-Installation

We'll create a folder in the main user's home where all the service's data will be saved.

mkdir ~/services/data/memos

Docker Compose

Memos will be run using Docker Compose. The content of the docker-compose.yml file is as follows:

services:
  web:
    image: neosmemo/memos:stable
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      default:
      proxy_external:
        aliases:
          - memos
    volumes:
      - ./data:/var/opt/memos
    environment:
      TZ: America/Guayaquil
    labels:
      traefik.enable: true
      traefik.docker.network: proxy_external
      traefik.http.routers.memos.rule: Host(`subdomain.example.com`)
      traefik.http.routers.memos.entrypoints: tunnel
      traefik.http.routers.memos.service: memos@docker
      traefik.http.services.memos.loadbalancer.server.port: 5230

networks:
  proxy_external:
    external: true

Note

Replace subdomain.example.com with the domain name where your service will be accessible from.

Reverse Proxy

This service is exposed by a reverse proxy. More specifically, it is using Traefik.

For this reason, you will see that this service has:

  1. A directive to connect it to the proxy_external external network.
  2. A container alias for the proxy_external network.
  3. A number of labels with names starting with traefik.

If you're not using a reverse proxy, feel free to remove these from the docker-compose.yml file. Keep in mind you might need to bind the ports to connect to the service instead.

Running

Start up the service with:

docker compose up -d

That's it! The service will auto-start on system startup and restart on failure.