Self-host Grocy

A household management app for groceries: it tracks stock and best-before dates, shopping lists, recipes and meal plans, plus chores, tasks and batteries.

Key facts

What you need

• Any VPS with at least 256 MB of RAM
• A domain you control — most self-hosted setups need HTTPS in front of them
• Under an hour if you've used Docker before

Install

Run these commands on your server:

copy# Grocy — the linuxserver.io image the Grocy README points to
docker run -d --name grocy --restart unless-stopped \
  -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e TZ=Etc/UTC \
  -p 9283:80 -v grocy-config:/config \
  lscr.io/linuxserver/grocy:latest
# open http://SERVER_IP:9283 and log in as admin / admin, then change the password

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