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.	Staying current.

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"
    # always (not unless-stopped) so FreeBSD's podman rc.d auto-starts it at boot
    restart: always

Save as compose.yaml, then run podman-compose up -d.

AppJail Director

.env:

# .env

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=syncthing

appjail-director.yml:

# appjail-director.yml

options:
  - virtualnet: ':<random> default'
  - nat:
services:
  syncthing:
    name: syncthing
    options:
      - container: 'boot args:--pull'
      - expose: '8384:8384 proto:tcp'
      - expose: '22000:22000 proto:tcp'
      - expose: '22000:22000 proto:udp'
      - expose: '21027:21027 proto:udp'
    volumes:
      - syncthing: /config
volumes:
  syncthing:
    device: '/path/to/containers/syncthing'

Makejail:

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

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

Save the files above, then run appjail-director up.

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

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

Save as run.sh, then run sh run.sh.

AppJail

appjail oci run -Pd \
  -o overwrite=force \
  -o container="args:--pull" \
  -o virtualnet=":<random> default" \
  -o nat \
  -o expose="8384:8384 proto:tcp" \
  -o expose="22000:22000 proto:tcp" \
  -o expose="22000:22000 proto:udp" \
  -o expose="21027:21027 proto:udp" \
  -o fstab="/path/to/containers/syncthing /config <pseudofs>" \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/syncthing:latest syncthing

Save as run.sh, then run sh run.sh.

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Bastille

Warning

Bastille's OCI support is experimental. It requires buildah, shares the host network stack (inherit), and persists image-declared volumes under --data-path.

services:
  syncthing:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/syncthing:latest"
    container_name: syncthing
    network_mode: host  # jail shares host networking

Save as podman-compose.yml, then run bastille up. Or via CLI:

bastille create -O \
  --data-path /path/to/containers/syncthing \
  syncthing ghcr.io/daemonless/syncthing:latest inherit

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"

Save as syncthing-deploy.yaml, then run ansible-playbook syncthing-deploy.yaml.

Access at: http://localhost:8384

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 15.1

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