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Installation

Project architecture

The project relies on the following components and services to work:

  • A web application server (Python/Django/Gunicorn)
  • A PostgreSQL database to store application data
  • A redis server to store cache and tasks data
  • A celery worker to run asynchronouse tasks (such as music import)
  • A celery scheduler to run recurrent tasks

Hardware requirements

Funkwhale is not especially CPU hungry, unless you're relying heavily on the transcoding feature (which is basic and unoptimized at the moment).

On a dockerized instance with 2 CPUs and a few active users, the memory footprint is around ~500Mb:

CONTAINER                   MEM USAGE
funkwhale_api_1             202.1 MiB
funkwhale_celerybeat_1      96.52 MiB
funkwhale_celeryworker_1    168.7 MiB
funkwhale_postgres_1        22.73 MiB
funkwhale_redis_1           1.496 MiB

Thus, Funkwhale should run fine on commodity hardware, small hosting boxes and Raspberry Pi. We lack real-world exemples of such deployments, so don't hesitate do give us your feedback (either positive or negative).

Software requirements

Software requirements will vary depending of your installation method. For Docker-based installations, the only requirement will be an Nginx reverse-proxy that will expose your instance to the outside world.

If you plan to install your Funkwhale instance without Docker, most of the dependencies should be available in your distribution's repositories.

Note

Funkwhale works only with Pyhon >= 3.5, as we need support for async/await. Older versions of Python are not supported.

Available installation methods

Docker is the recommended and easiest way to setup your Funkwhale instance. We also maintain an installation guide for Debian 9.

Frontend setup

Note

You do not need to do this if you are deploying using Docker, as frontend files are already included in the funkwhale docker image.

Files for the web frontend are purely static and can simply be downloaded, unzipped and served from any webserver:

cd /srv/funkwhale
curl -L -o front.zip "https://code.eliotberriot.com/funkwhale/funkwhale/builds/artifacts/|version|/download?job=build_front"
unzip front.zip

Reverse proxy

In order to make funkwhale accessible from outside your server and to play nicely with other applications on your machine, you should configure a reverse proxy. At the moment, we only have documentation for nginx, if you know how to implement the same thing for apache, you're welcome.

Nginx

Ensure you have a recent version of nginx on your server. On debian-like system, you would have to run the following:

apt-get update
apt-get install nginx

Then, download our sample virtualhost file and proxy conf:

curl -L -o /etc/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf "https://code.eliotberriot.com/funkwhale/funkwhale/raw/|version|/deploy/funkwhale_proxy.conf"
curl -L -o /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/funkwhale.conf "https://code.eliotberriot.com/funkwhale/funkwhale/raw/|version|/deploy/nginx.conf"

Ensure static assets and proxy pass match your configuration, and check the configuration is valid with nginx -t. If everything is fine, you can restart your nginx server with service nginx restart.