Install excalidraw under docker

Overview

Install excalidraw under docker.

Install Excalidraw using Docker

Now that Docker is installed, you can pull the Excalidraw Docker image and run it as a container.

docker pull docker.io/excalidraw/excalidraw:latest

Run the Excalidraw container in detached mode (-d) and map port 8080 on your host to port 80 on the container using the following command:

docker run -p 8080:80 -d docker.io/excalidraw/excalidraw:latest

Check excalidraw service

root@Service:~# docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                          COMMAND                  CREATED              STATUS                        PORTS                                   NAMES
abe9fa359013   excalidraw/excalidraw:latest   "/docker-entrypoint.…"   About a minute ago   Up About a minute (healthy)   0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp, :::8080->80/tcp   keen_pasteur
085bdc5ed931   redis:alpine                   "docker-entrypoint.s…"   4 days ago           Exited (0) 2 days ago                                                 composetest-redis-1
32c88ec9f1f6   composetest-web                "flask run"              4 days ago           Exited (1) 4 days ago                                                 composetest-web-1
45b89e827bc5   ubuntu                         "/bin/bash"              4 days ago           Exited (137) 2 hours ago                                              heuristic_feistel
ca0493c84c48   dokken/centos-8                "/bin/bash"              4 days ago           Exited (0) 4 days ago                                                 quizzical_hodgkin
root@Service:~#

CONTAINER ID of abe9fa359013 which status is ‘UP’ and healthy.

Access Excalidraw

Now that Excalidraw is running as a Docker container, you can access it through a web browser by navigating to http://your_vps_ip:8080.

http://your_vps_ip:8080

Replace your_vps_ip with the actual IP address of your VPS.

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