Docker

Chomper ships as a set of Docker containers, started together with a single docker-compose.yml — there's no manual dependency install, no separate database setup. Docker is the only real prerequisite; once it's running, the install script handles the rest.

What Docker is

Docker packages an app together with everything it needs to run (runtime, libraries, config) into a self-contained image, and runs it as an isolated container — lighter than a virtual machine, since containers share the host's kernel instead of emulating hardware. Docker Compose is the piece that starts multiple containers together as one stack, wired to each other on their own network — that's what Chomper's docker-compose.yml is: one file describing the UI, ingestion API, worker, ClickHouse, and Redis as a single unit.

Official resources

• Docker docs — Get started
• Install Docker Engine
• Docker Compose docs

The OS-specific guides below are exactly the commands Chomper's own install script runs on each platform — the Docker docs above are the deeper reference if your box doesn't match one of them. Once Docker is up and Chomper is running, the last article here covers putting a real domain and TLS certificate in front of it.