Installation

There are multiple ways you can install imgproxy:

Docker

imgproxy can (and this is highly recommended) be used as a standalone application inside a Docker container. Just pull the official image from GitHub Container Registry:

docker pull ghcr.io/imgproxy/imgproxy:latest
docker run -p 8080:8080 -it ghcr.io/imgproxy/imgproxy:latest

You can also build your own image. imgproxy is ready to be dockerized out of the box:

docker build -f docker/Dockerfile -t imgproxy .
docker run -p 8080:8080 -it imgproxy

Helm

imgproxy can be easily deployed to your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and our official Helm chart:

helm repo add imgproxy https://helm.imgproxy.net/

# With Helm 3
helm upgrade -i imgproxy imgproxy/imgproxy

# With Helm 2
helm upgrade -i --name imgproxy imgproxy/imgproxy

Check out the chart's README for more info.

Clouds

Heroku

imgproxy can be deployed to Heroku with the click of a button:

That being said, you can also do it manually in just a few steps:

git clone https://github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy.git && cd imgproxy
heroku create your-application
heroku stack:set container
git push heroku master

If you want to deploy a specific version of imgproxy or imgproxy Pro, you can use Heroku Container Registry:

heroku create your-application
heroku stack:set container -a your-application
heroku container:login
# Replace "v3" with the imgproxy version you want to deploy
docker pull ghcr.io/imgproxy/imgproxy:v3-amd64
docker tag ghcr.io/imgproxy/imgproxy:v3-amd64 registry.heroku.com/your-application/web
docker push registry.heroku.com/your-application/web
heroku container:release web -a your-application

warning

Take a note that the example is using a tag suffixed with -amd64 when pulling imgproxy Docker image. This suffix ensures that docker pull will download an image built for the AMD64 CPU architecture which is used by Heroku.

If the machine where you're running these commands uses an ARM64 CPU (such as Apple Silicone ones) and you don't use the -amd64 suffix, docker pull will download an image built for the ARM64 CPU architecture, and it won't be able to launch on Heroku.

AWS Lambda

You can find a step-by-step guide on how to deploy imgproxy to AWS Lambda in our blog post.

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

You can deploy imgproxy to AWS ECS using the official imgproxy CloudFormation template.

Packages

Building Linux packages

We don't provide packages for imgproxy yet, but you can use the imgproxy-build-package script to export a DEB, RPM, or TAR package from a Docker image:

docker run -u0 --rm -it -v $(pwd):/dist ghcr.io/imgproxy/imgproxy:latest-amd64 imgproxy-build-package deb /dist

Where:

• ghcr.io/imgproxy/imgproxy:latest-amd64 is the imgproxy Docker image you want to export the package from. Take note that we used the -amd64 suffix in the image tag. This suffix ensures that the image built for the AMD64 CPU architecture will be used. If you're using an ARM64 CPU, you should replace the -amd64 suffix with -arm64.
• $(pwd) is the directory on your host machine where the package will be saved. $(pwd) is a shell command that returns the current working directory. You can replace it with the path to the directory where you want to save the package.
• deb is the package format you want to export. You can replace it with rpm or tar to export an RPM or TAR package.

info

imgproxy binaries are linked against libc 2.31 and libstdc++ 10.2.1, so you need to have these versions or newer on your system to run imgproxy. Here's a list of some Linux distributions that have these versions or newer:

• Ubuntu 20.04+ (Focal Fossa and newer)
• Debian 11+ (Bullseye and newer)
• Fedora 33+
• CentOS/RHEL 9+

Installing a DEB package (Debian/Ubuntu)

You can install a DEB package on your Debian/Ubuntu system using the following command:

sudo dpkg -i imgproxy-3.25.0.arm64.deb

Where imgproxy-3.25.0.arm64.deb is the name of the DEB package you've exported.

If you don't have some of the required dependencies installed on your system, the installation process may fail. You fix the issue by running the following command:

sudo apt-get install -f

This command will install the missing dependencies and finish the installation of the imgproxy package.

tip

The package contains an /etc/imgproxy.rc file that you can use to configure imgproxy by exporting required environment variables.

Installing an RPM package (Fedora/CentOS/RHEL)

You can install an RPM package on your RHEL/Fedora/CentOS system using the following command:

sudo rpm -i imgproxy-3.25.0.arm64.rpm

Where imgproxy-3.25.0.arm64.rpm is the name of the RPM package you've exported.

If you don't have some of the required dependencies installed on your system, the installation process may fail. You need to install the missing dependencies manually.

tip

The package contains an /etc/imgproxy.rc file that you can use to configure imgproxy by exporting required environment variables.

Installing a TAR package

You can extract the TAR package on your system using the following command:

tar -xzf imgproxy-3.25.0.arm64.tar.gz -C /opt

Where:

• imgproxy-3.25.0.arm64.tar.gz is the name of the TAR package you've exported.
• /opt is the directory where you want to extract the package. We'll refer to it as %output_dir from now on.

Use the %output_dir/imgproxy/bin/imgproxy script to run imgproxy. You can create a symlink to this script in the /usr/local/bin directory or add the %output_dir/imgproxy/bin directory to your PATH environment variable to make the imgproxy command available system-wide.

tip

The package contains an %output_dir/imgproxy/imgproxy.rc file that you can use to configure imgproxy by exporting required environment variables.

warning

Take care to not overwrite the existing %output_dir/imgproxy/imgproxy.rc file when updating imgproxy. If you've made any changes to the configuration, you should merge them manually.

Arch Linux and derivatives

imgproxy package is available from AUR.

macOS + Homebrew

imgproxy is available from Homebrew:

brew install imgproxy

From the source

warning

imgproxy depends on libvips which has a lot of its own dependencies. We can't guarantee that the imgproxy dependencies installed in your system don't contain any bugs or vulnerabilities. We highly recommend running imgproxy in a Docker container or using a Linux package exported from a Docker image.

You can get the imgproxy source code by cloning the GitHub repo:

git clone https://github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy.git
cd imgproxy

...or by downloading the source tarball:

mkdir imgproxy
cd imgproxy
curl -Ls https://github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy/archive/master.tar.gz \
  | tar -xz --strip-components 1 -C .

You can also download a specific version:

mkdir imgproxy
cd imgproxy
curl -Ls https://github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy/archive/v3.20.0.tar.gz \
  | tar -xz --strip-components 1 -C .

Ubuntu

First, install libvips. The easiest way is to use the apt package manager:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libvips-dev

However, the version of libvips in the Ubuntu repositories may be outdated, so you may want to build it from the source: https://github.com/libvips/libvips/wiki/Build-for-Ubuntu

Next, install the latest version of Go.

And finally, install imgproxy itself:

CGO_LDFLAGS_ALLOW="-s|-w" \
  go build -o /usr/local/bin/imgproxy

macOS + Homebrew

brew install vips go
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(brew --prefix libffi)/lib/pkgconfig" \
  CGO_LDFLAGS_ALLOW="-s|-w" \
  CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW="-Xpreprocessor" \
  go build -o /usr/local/bin/imgproxy