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The Customer Support & Community Stack

A support ticket inbox, a community forum and uptime monitoring — everything you need to support customers and build community without paying per agent or per seat.

Combined minimum RAM

~6.3GB

Estimated savings

Help desk and community with no per-agent licenses

Tools in this pack (4)

FreeScout

Lightweight support inbox, a free alternative to Help Scout.

CRM & SupportOpen-Core🟡 Standard · ~1GB
docker-compose.yml
version: "3.9"
services:
  freescout:
    image: nfrastack/freescout:2.2.14
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "8080:80"
    environment:
      - DB_HOST=freescout-db
      - DB_NAME=freescout
      - DB_USER=freescout
      - DB_PASS=change-me-mysql-password # must match MYSQL_PASSWORD below
    depends_on:
      - freescout-db
  freescout-db:
    image: mariadb:11
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=change-me-mysql-root-password # REQUIRED: generate a random secret before first run
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=freescout
      - MYSQL_USER=freescout
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=change-me-mysql-password # REQUIRED: generate a random secret before first run
    volumes:
      - freescout_db_data:/var/lib/mysql
volumes:
  freescout_db_data:
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Zammad

Support ticketing system, a self-hostable alternative to Zendesk.

CRM & Support100% FOSS🟡 Standard · ~1GB
docker-compose.yml
version: "3.9"
services:
  zammad:
    image: zammad/zammad:7.2.0-0021
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    environment:
      - POSTGRESQL_HOST=zammad-db
      - POSTGRESQL_USER=zammad
      - POSTGRESQL_PASS=zammad
    depends_on:
      - zammad-db
  zammad-db:
    image: postgres:15-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=zammad
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=change-me-postgres-password # REQUIRED: generate a random secret before first run
      - POSTGRES_DB=zammad_production
    volumes:
      - zammad_pg_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
volumes:
  zammad_pg_data:
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Discourse

Large-scale forum and community software, an alternative to Circle.

CRM & Support100% FOSS🔴 Full · ~4GB
install.sh (official script)
# Discourse se instala oficialmente con su propio script "launcher" y un
# archivo app.yml (no un docker-compose.yml estándar):
git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git /var/discourse
cd /var/discourse
./discourse-setup
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Uptime Kuma

Self-hosted uptime monitor, an alternative to UptimeRobot.

Dev Tools100% FOSS🟢 Lightweight · ~256MB
docker-compose.yml
version: "3.9"
services:
  uptime-kuma:
    image: louislam/uptime-kuma:2.5.5
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "3001:3001" # put a reverse proxy (Caddy/Nginx/Traefik) with HTTPS in front of this port, pointed at your domain
    volumes:
      - uptime_kuma_data:/app/data
volumes:
  uptime_kuma_data:
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