This guide is based on `docker compose`/Docker Compose v2, but `docker-compose`/Docker Compose v1 should work as well. Docker 20.10+ is required for building your own images because of BuildKit usage, and Docker 20.10 users need to [enable BuildKit first](https://docs.docker.com/build/buildkit/#getting-started), or [upgrade to latest Docker](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/#server).
First, run `cp docs/examples/docker-compose.yml docker-compose.yml`, and edit `docker-compose.yml` if you want to build the image yourself or choose a [different tag](https://iceshrimp.dev/iceshrimp/-/packages/container/iceshrimp/versions)
If you are running Iceshrimp on a system with more than one CPU thread, you might want to set the `clusterLimit` config option to about half of your thread count, depending on your system configuration. Please note that each worker requires around 10 PostgreSQL connections, so be sure to set `max_connections` appropriately. To do this with docker-compose, add `args: ["-c", "max_connections=n"]` to the `db:` section of `docker-compose.yml`, with `n` being `(10 * no_workers) + 10`.