This guide walks through a self-hosted installation of Excalidraw using Docker Compose.
For Docker installation, see Docker.
Install Git to clone the project repository.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y git
Download the source code to the server.
git clone https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw excalidraw
Move into the project folder to access deployment files.
cd excalidraw
Use Docker Compose to start services in the background.
docker compose up -d
Prefer automation? See Excalidraw Ansible Setup for an example playbook.
Prefer containers? See Excalidraw Docker Setup.
Any questions?
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