How do I self-host Krita?

Krita 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 Krita free to self-host?

Yes, Krita is open source under the GPL-3.0 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 Krita built with?

Krita is built with C++. It has 10,543 stars on GitHub, indicating strong community adoption and support.

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Deploy Krita

Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.

Quick Start

Create a directory

mkdir krita-self-hosted && cd krita-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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Metadata

License

GPL-3.0

Language

C++

Last Updated

10/14/2026

Configuration

yaml


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


services:
  krita:
    image: linuxserver/krita:latest
    container_name: krita
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "3002:3000"

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