dify-web

packaged by Chainguard

Chainguard Container for dify-web

Next.js web console for Dify, the platform for building agentic workflows and RAG pipelines on large language models.

Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/dify-web:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Compatibility Notes

Chainguard's dify-web image is comparable to the upstream langgenius/dify-web image and is designed as a drop-in replacement for it. It keeps the upstream entrypoint (/bin/sh ./entrypoint.sh in /app), the dify user and group (uid and gid 1001), the default environment variables, and both the Next.js and the experimental vinext servers.

The differences are:

• The image runs on the Chainguard Node.js runtime instead of an Alpine base, and does not ship pnpm, yarn, or a package manager. The upstream build-only variables NODE_VERSION, PNPM_HOME, YARN_VERSION, and COMMIT_SHA are not set.
• Dify's license and notices are included at /usr/share/licenses/dify-web/LICENSE.

Prerequisites

dify-web is the browser console of Dify and needs a running Dify API service (langgenius/dify-api) with its PostgreSQL and Redis dependencies. Refer to the upstream Docker Compose deployment for the complete stack.

Getting Started

To use this image in the upstream Docker Compose deployment, set the image of the web service in docker/docker-compose.yaml to cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/dify-web:latest and start the stack as described upstream. Keep dify-web and dify-api on the same Dify release, as the upstream Compose file does.

You can also run the console on its own and point it at an existing Dify API:

docker run -d --name dify-web -p 3000:3000 \
  -e CONSOLE_API_URL=http://localhost:5001 \
  -e APP_API_URL=http://localhost:5001 \
  -e SERVER_CONSOLE_API_URL=http://host.docker.internal:5001 \
  --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway \
  cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/dify-web:latest

The entrypoint turns these variables into the NEXT_PUBLIC_* settings the console reads at runtime. Check that the console picked them up:

curl -s http://localhost:3000/signin | grep -o 'data-api-prefix="[^"]*"'

data-api-prefix="http://localhost:5001/console/api"

Open http://localhost:3000/install in a browser to create the first admin account once the API is reachable.

Configuration

A common setup puts the console and the API behind one reverse proxy, as the upstream Compose deployment does with nginx: API paths such as /console/api, /api, /v1, and /files go to the API, and / goes to dify-web. In that setup, leave the public API URLs empty so the browser calls the API on the same origin, and give the server-side renderer a direct address for the API. This example joins the Docker network dify that the proxy shares with an API container named dify-api:

docker run -d --name dify-web -p 3000:3000 \
  --network dify \
  -e CONSOLE_API_URL= \
  -e APP_API_URL= \
  -e SERVER_CONSOLE_API_URL=http://dify-api:5001 \
  cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/dify-web:latest

The upstream web.defaults file lists the remaining console settings, such as MARKETPLACE_URL and TEXT_GENERATION_TIMEOUT_MS. Set EXPERIMENTAL_ENABLE_VINEXT=true to run the experimental vinext server instead of Next.js.

Documentation and Resources

• Dify source repository
• Dify Docker deployment

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