Install FreshRSS Inside Docker Container on Linux

FreshRSS is an open-source RSS feed reader. It allows users to aggregate and manage multiple RSS and Atom feeds in one place, offering a streamlined way to keep up with updates from websites, blogs, news outlets, or any other source that offers RSS feeds.

This tutorial explains how to install FreshRSS 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 FreshRSS

• Host network

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

docker run -d --name=freshrss --restart=always --network=host \
    -v /opt/freshrss/config:/config \
    linuxserver/freshrss

• User-defined bridge network

User-defined bridge network can be used for listening on different port. By default, FreshRSS service is listening on port 80. It can be changed with -p option.

docker network create app-net

docker run -d --name=freshrss --restart=always --network=app-net \
    -p 8080:80 \
    -v /opt/freshrss/config:/config \
    linuxserver/freshrss

Testing FreshRSS

Open a web browser and go to http://<IP_ADDRESS>, where <IP_ADDRESS> is the IP address of the system. For the first time, you will be asked to create the default user. After that, you will be redirected to the login page.

Uninstall FreshRSS

To completely remove FreshRSS, remove its container:

docker rm --force freshrss

Remove FreshRSS image:

docker rmi linuxserver/freshrss

You can also remove FreshRSS data:

sudo rm -rf /opt/freshrss

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

docker network rm app-net