Syncthing

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it's transmitted over the Internet.

Port	8384
Registry	ghcr.io/daemonless/syncthing
Source	https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing
Website	https://syncthing.net/

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
latest	Upstream Binary. Built from official release.	Alternative build.
pkg	FreeBSD Quarterly. Uses stable, tested packages.	Production stability.
pkg-latest	FreeBSD Latest. Rolling package updates.	Newest FreeBSD packages.

Prerequisites

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions.

Deployment

Podman Compose

services:
  syncthing:
    image: ghcr.io/daemonless/syncthing:latest
    container_name: syncthing
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/syncthing:/config"
    ports:
      - 8384:8384
      - 22000:22000
      - 22000:22000
      - 21027:21027
    restart: unless-stopped

AppJail Director

.env:

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=syncthing

appjail-director.yml:

options:
  - virtualnet: ':<random> default'
  - nat:
services:
  syncthing:
    name: syncthing
    options:
      - container: 'boot args:--pull'
    volumes:
      - syncthing: /config
volumes:
  syncthing:
    device: '/path/to/containers/syncthing'

Makejail:

ARG tag=latest

OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/syncthing:${tag}

Podman CLI

podman run -d --name syncthing \
  -p 8384:8384 \
  -p 22000:22000 \
  -p 22000:22000 \
  -p 21027:21027 \
  -v /path/to/containers/syncthing:/config \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/syncthing:latest

Ansible

- name: Deploy syncthing
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: syncthing
    image: ghcr.io/daemonless/syncthing:latest
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    ports:
      - "8384:8384"
      - "22000:22000"
      - "22000:22000"
      - "21027:21027"
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/syncthing:/config"

Parameters

Volumes

Path	Description
/config	Configuration and data directory

Ports

Port	Protocol	Description
8384	TCP	Web UI
22000	TCP	Sync protocol (TCP/UDP)
22000	UDP	Sync protocol (TCP/UDP)
21027	UDP

Architectures: amd64 User: bsd (UID/GID via PUID/PGID, defaults to 1000:1000) Base: FreeBSD 15.0

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