Install FlowiseAI Inside Docker Container on Linux

FlowiseAI is an open-source web application that helps developers and businesses build AI-powered applications, especially chatbots, automation workflows, and AI-driven decision-making systems. It provides a visual interface for designing and deploying AI models, making it easier to integrate Large Language Models (LLMs).

This tutorial explains how to install FlowiseAI inside a Docker container on Linux. Commands have been tested on Ubuntu.

Prepare environment

Make sure you have installed Docker in your system. If you are using Ubuntu, installation instructions can be found in the post.

Install FlowiseAI

• Host network

Run the following command to create a container for FlowiseAI that uses host network:

docker run -d --name=flowiseai --restart=always --network=host \
    -v /opt/flowiseai/data:/root/.flowise \
    elestio/flowiseai

• User-defined bridge network

User-defined bridge network can be used for listening on different port. By default, FlowiseAI service is listening on port 3000. It can be changed with -p option.

docker network create app-net

docker run -d --name=flowiseai --restart=always --network=app-net \
    -p 8080:3000 \
    -v /opt/flowiseai/data:/root/.flowise \
    elestio/flowiseai

Testing FlowiseAI

To access the application, open a web browser and go to http://<IP_ADDRESS>:3000, where <IP_ADDRESS> is the IP address of the system.

Uninstall FlowiseAI

To completely remove FlowiseAI, remove its container:

docker rm --force flowiseai

Remove FlowiseAI image:

docker rmi elestio/flowiseai

You can also remove FlowiseAI data:

sudo rm -rf /opt/flowiseai

If a user-defined bridge network was created, you can delete it as follows:

docker network rm app-net