Docker Guide Deploying titra with Docker You will need a  MongoDB   container  to use titra. Here is an example to get started: docker run --name mongodb -p 27017:27017 mongo Please note that this basic approach will store all database data in a transient Docker volume – this is not a good approach to run MongoDB in production! Checkout this  guide  for a more sophisticated approach on how to get started with running MongoDB in Docker. Once the database is ready, titra needs to be aware of that container, an easy way to achieve this is using  –link : docker run --name titra -p 3000:3000 --link mongodb -e MONGO_URL=mongodb://mongodb/titra -e ROOT_URL=http://localhost:3000 kromit/titra In addition to the manual steps above, you can also use  docker-compose  to deploy the whole stack: curl -L https://github.com/faburem/titra/raw/master/docker-compose.yml | ROOT_URL=http://localhost:3000 docker-compose -f - up Please note that our standard Docker compose file does not map a volume for the database files and thus everything is stored in a transient Docker volume. Congratulations! titra should now be up and running at http://localhost:3000 Persisting MongoDB database files As mentioned above, the MongoDB container will fallback to using transient Docker volumes if not specified otherwise. If you are planning to run titra in production you should therefore specify a volume mapping for the container path /data/db. A ready-to-roll production yml file can also be found in the titra  GitHub repository  which maps the container path to /root/mongodb. This setup is used for the DigitalOcean one-click deployment app.