How do I self-host GIMP?

GIMP can be deployed using Docker Compose. The AltStack provides a production-ready configuration that you can deploy on your own server. Simply copy the configuration and run it on any machine with Docker installed.

Is GIMP free to self-host?

Yes, GIMP is open source under the Other and free to self-host. Your only costs are the server infrastructure. A basic cloud VPS starts at around $5-10/month.

What programming language is GIMP built with?

GIMP is built with C. It has 6,511 stars on GitHub, indicating strong community adoption and support.

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Deploy GIMP

Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp

Quick Start

Create a directory

mkdir gimp-self-hosted && cd gimp-self-hosted

Create config file

Copy the content from the Config tab below into a file named docker-compose.yml

Deploy

docker compose up -d

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Last Updated

10/14/2026

Configuration

yaml


# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
# 🚀 BUILT & MAINTAINED BY THE ALTSTACK
# 🌍 https://thealtstack.com
# 💡 Open-source deployment templates for modern self-hosting.
# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━


services:
  gimp:
    image: linuxserver/gimp:latest
    container_name: gimp
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "3001:3000"
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000

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