linuxserver/librespeed repository overview

The LinuxServer.io⁠ team brings you another container release featuring:

• regular and timely application updates
• easy user mappings (PGID, PUID)
• custom base image with s6 overlay
• weekly base OS updates with common layers across the entire LinuxServer.io ecosystem to minimise space usage, down time and bandwidth
• regular security updates

Find us at:

• Blog⁠ - all the things you can do with our containers including How-To guides, opinions and much more!
• Discord⁠ - realtime support / chat with the community and the team.
• Discourse⁠ - post on our community forum.
• GitHub⁠ - view the source for all of our repositories.
• Open Collective⁠ - please consider helping us by either donating or contributing to our budget

⁠linuxserver/librespeed⁠

Librespeed⁠ is a very lightweight Speedtest implemented in Javascript, using XMLHttpRequest and Web Workers.

No Flash, No Java, No Websocket, No Bullshit.

⁠Supported Architectures

We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here⁠ and our announcement here⁠.

Simply pulling lscr.io/linuxserver/librespeed:latest should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.

The architectures supported by this image are:

⁠Application Setup

Access the speedtest webui at http://SERVERIP. The results database can be accessed at http://SERVERIP/results/stats.php with the password set. The default template used is based on example-singleServer-full.html. However, all templates are provided for reference at /config/www/. Feel free to customize /config/www/index.html as you like. Delete the file and restart to go back to the image default.

You can optionally place customized speedtest.js and speedtest_worker.js files under /config/www and they will supersede the defaults after a container start. Keep in mind that once you do so, they will no longer be updated. You can delete them and recreate the container to go back to the image defaults.

If you are setting up a mysql or postgresql database, you first need to import the tables into your database as described at the following link https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest/blob/master/doc.md#creating-the-database⁠

To enable a custom results page set the environment variable CUSTOM_RESULTS=true and start (or restart) the container at least once for /config/www/results/index.php to be created and modify this file to your liking.

⁠Usage

To help you get started creating a container from this image you can either use docker-compose or the docker cli.

⁠docker-compose (recommended, click here for more info⁠)

---
services:
  librespeed:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/librespeed:latest
    container_name: librespeed
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      - PASSWORD=PASSWORD
      - CUSTOM_RESULTS=false #optional
      - DB_TYPE=sqlite #optional
      - DB_NAME=DB_NAME #optional
      - DB_HOSTNAME=DB_HOSTNAME #optional
      - DB_USERNAME=DB_USERNAME #optional
      - DB_PASSWORD=DB_PASSWORD #optional
      - DB_PORT=DB_PORT #optional
      - IPINFO_APIKEY=ACCESS_TOKEN #optional
    volumes:
      - /path/to/librespeed/config:/config
    ports:
      - 80:80
    restart: unless-stopped

⁠docker cli (click here for more info⁠)

docker run -d \
  --name=librespeed \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Etc/UTC \
  -e PASSWORD=PASSWORD \
  -e CUSTOM_RESULTS=false `#optional` \
  -e DB_TYPE=sqlite `#optional` \
  -e DB_NAME=DB_NAME `#optional` \
  -e DB_HOSTNAME=DB_HOSTNAME `#optional` \
  -e DB_USERNAME=DB_USERNAME `#optional` \
  -e DB_PASSWORD=DB_PASSWORD `#optional` \
  -e DB_PORT=DB_PORT `#optional` \
  -e IPINFO_APIKEY=ACCESS_TOKEN `#optional` \
  -p 80:80 \
  -v /path/to/librespeed/config:/config \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  lscr.io/linuxserver/librespeed:latest

⁠Parameters

Containers are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.

⁠Environment variables from files (Docker secrets)

You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend FILE__.

As an example:

-e FILE__MYVAR=/run/secrets/mysecretvariable

Will set the environment variable MYVAR based on the contents of the /run/secrets/mysecretvariable file.

⁠Umask for running applications

For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional -e UMASK=022 setting. Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up here⁠ before asking for support.

⁠User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes (-v flags), permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.

Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.

In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id your_user as below:

id your_user

Example output:

uid=1000(your_user) gid=1000(your_user) groups=1000(your_user)

⁠Docker Mods

We publish various Docker Mods⁠ to enable additional functionality within the containers. The list of Mods available for this image (if any) as well as universal mods that can be applied to any one of our images can be accessed via the dynamic badges above.

⁠Support Info

• Shell access whilst the container is running:

  docker exec -it librespeed /bin/bash
  

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• To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:

  docker logs -f librespeed
  

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• Container version number:

  docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' librespeed
  

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• Image version number:

  docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' lscr.io/linuxserver/librespeed:latest
  

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⁠Updating Info

Most of our images are static, versioned, and require an image update and container recreation to update the app inside. With some exceptions (noted in the relevant readme.md), we do not recommend or support updating apps inside the container. Please consult the Application Setup⁠ section above to see if it is recommended for the image.

Below are the instructions for updating containers:

⁠Via Docker Compose

• Update images:

  • All images:

    docker-compose pull
    

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  • Single image:

    docker-compose pull librespeed
    

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• Update containers:

  • All containers:

    docker-compose up -d
    

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  • Single container:

    docker-compose up -d librespeed
    

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• You can also remove the old dangling images:

  docker image prune
  

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⁠Via Docker Run

• Update the image:

  docker pull lscr.io/linuxserver/librespeed:latest
  

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• Stop the running container:

  docker stop librespeed
  

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• Delete the container:

  docker rm librespeed
  

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• Recreate a new container with the same docker run parameters as instructed above (if mapped correctly to a host folder, your /config folder and settings will be preserved)

• You can also remove the old dangling images:

  docker image prune
  

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⁠Image Update Notifications - Diun (Docker Image Update Notifier)

⁠Building locally

If you want to make local modifications to these images for development purposes or just to customize the logic:

git clone https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-librespeed.git
cd docker-librespeed
docker build \
  --no-cache \
  --pull \
  -t lscr.io/linuxserver/librespeed:latest .

The ARM variants can be built on x86_64 hardware and vice versa using lscr.io/linuxserver/qemu-static

docker run --rm --privileged lscr.io/linuxserver/qemu-static --reset

Once registered you can define the dockerfile to use with -f Dockerfile.aarch64.

⁠Versions

• 27.07.25: - Rebase to Alpine 3.22.
• 27.06.24: - Rebase to Alpine 3.20. Existing users should update their nginx confs to avoid http2 deprecation warnings.
• 23.12.23: - Rebase to Alpine 3.19 with php 8.3.
• 06.12.23: - Replace php mysqli with php pdo_pgsql.
• 25.05.23: - Rebase to Alpine 3.18, deprecate armhf.
• 14.05.23: - Added support for ipinfo.io
• 20.01.23: - Rebase to alpine 3.17 with php8.1.
• 20.08.22: - Rebasing to alpine 3.15 with php8. Restructure nginx configs (see changes announcement⁠).
• 01.03.21: - Fix up database settings. Make sure index.html is recreated.
• 28.02.21: - Added php7-ctype.
• 23.01.21: - Rebasing to alpine 3.13.
• 01.06.20: - Rebasing to alpine 3.12.
• 29.04.20: - Add donation links for LibreSpeed to Github sponsor button and container log.
• 09.01.20: - Initial Release.