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Experimental docker-compose Matrix 2.0 stack for rapidly showing off EW+EX+EC

11 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 11 comments · first 2024-11-08 · latest 2026-02-09

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  1. …Meanwhile if you're allergic to k8s I went and published a trivial docker-compose at https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo/ too.
  2. If you want a simple docker-compose for Matrix, you can always use https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo . The reason Element ships ESS Community as kubernetes helm charts is simply so that the officially supported distro is as…
    comment by Arathorn · 2025-12-01 · in Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years
  3. …if you hate k8s, then there's always the trivial docker-compose thing I did for the same stack at https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo . We have very much not forgotten the self-hosters - not least because Element tries to…
    comment by Arathorn · 2025-09-25 · in New Element Web and Desktop apps
  4. …instance. But if you run it via ESS Community ( https://element.io/server-suite/community ) or even https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo it should work fine.
  5. …myself back in November: https://element.io/blog/experimenting-with-matrix-2-0-using-... and https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo and https://youtu.be/6iMi5BiQcoI . Or you could just run it via Element Server Suite:…
  6. …and want a version professionally supported by Element) If you're happy using docker-compose, then https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo is a very simple template for getting going. Alternatively,…
    comment by Arathorn · 2025-09-02 · in Matrix.org – Database Incident
  7. …traversal should be a good thing. How did you try to set it up? I did a basic walk through at https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo in case that helps.
    comment by Arathorn · 2025-07-19 · in Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org
  8. …e.g. https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm for the brand new official helm charts from Element, or https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo for a very quick and dirty docker-compose setup i threw together. MAS provides backwards…
    comment by Arathorn · 2025-04-02 · in Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS
  9. this is literally why i wrote https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo
    comment by Arathorn · 2024-11-15 · in Matrix Client Tutorial
  10. would be genuinely interested in if the “oneliner” docker-compose approach at https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo works better for you :)
    comment by Arathorn · 2024-11-10 · in Matrix 2.0 Is Here
  11. https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo in the end
    comment by Arathorn · 2024-11-08 · in Matrix 2.0 Is Here