readystack/nodebb repository overview

⁠NodeBB

readystack/nodebb:v4.16.3-CE-ubuntu24.04-r1

A cosign-signed build of github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB v4.16.3 (GPL-3.0), built clean-room from official upstream source by ReadyStack⁠.

⁠What you get

Signature, user and attestations below were measured on the published digest sha256:8147b7d69d99eafc311eedffdf77ed7bd3111b874d1f5f7d2fb9de9e7feb5122 on 2026-10-20.

• Scan scores — we scan every image we publish every day (an SBOM made with syft, vulnerabilities matched with grype, scored with ce.rodeo's published rubric) and record each scan with how its score was derived. This release's first and latest scan: https://readystack.dev/products.html#nodebb⁠
• ReadyStack release check — passed at release on 2026-10-20: no fixable critical or high vulnerability (Docker Scout and OSV), a non-root user, SBOM and provenance attached. This is ReadyStack's own test, not a Docker grade; vulnerabilities published since then are in today's result at https://readystack.dev/queue⁠.
• Signed — cosign signature by the ReadyStack release key (fingerprint 04daa92344a52dbc) on this release's index digest sha256:8147b7d69d99eafc311eedffdf77ed7bd3111b874d1f5f7d2fb9de9e7feb5122; verify with cosign verify --key https://readystack.dev/keys/cosign.pub readystack/nodebb:v4.16.3-CE-ubuntu24.04-r1.
• Attestations — An SPDX SBOM and SLSA v1 build provenance are attached to this digest.
• Runs as a non-root user (nodebb).
• Built from source by ReadyStack.

⁠Which tag should I pull?

This image follows the ReadyStack release-tag convention:

• The current release is v4.16.3-CE-ubuntu24.04-r1 — the release on sale at readystack.dev. Release tags use the pattern <upstream-version>-CE-<base-os>-r<N>; the current one is signed, attested (SBOM + provenance), and is provided under the ReadyStack Agreement⁠.

• Earlier release tags (an older version or revision in the same pattern) are superseded. They stay pullable so existing deployments can pin them, but they are no longer re-graded, and fixes appear only in newer releases: move to the current release. For a superseded release's build kit, ask support.

• Any tag beginning with internal- is an engineering-pipeline artifact published for build observability. It is unsupported, may change or disappear without notice, and must not be used in production.

# ✓ current release
docker pull readystack/nodebb:v4.16.3-CE-ubuntu24.04-r1

# ✗ unsupported (do not pull)
docker pull readystack/nodebb:internal-...

This release is signed; verify it with cosign verify --key https://readystack.dev/keys/cosign.pub readystack/nodebb:v4.16.3-CE-ubuntu24.04-r1 (the signature is recorded in the public Sigstore transparency log). Support: [email protected]⁠, as set out in the ReadyStack Agreement⁠.

⁠Deployment

Single container running the NodeBB forum in the foreground against an EXTERNAL database (Valkey in this release's tested setup; NodeBB can also use Redis, MongoDB or PostgreSQL, untested here). Node.js application; the image contains no database.

docker network create nodebb-net
docker run -d --name valkey --network nodebb-net -v valkey-data:/data valkey/valkey:8-alpine
docker run -d --name nodebb --network nodebb-net -p 4567:4567 -e NODEBB_DB_HOST=valkey -e NODEBB_URL=http://localhost:4567 -e NODEBB_ADMIN_USERNAME=admin -e 'NODEBB_ADMIN_PASSWORD=YOUR_ADMIN_PASSWORD' -e [email protected] -v nodebb-uploads:/app/public/uploads readystack/nodebb:v4.16.3-CE-ubuntu24.04-r1

NodeBB stores everything in a Valkey (or Redis) server it reaches by name, so both containers share the nodebb-net network (without it NodeBB exits at once with Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND valkey). Choose your own admin password (6 or more characters, not a common word) and keep it in single quotes; put your forum's address in NODEBB_URL. About 10 seconds later GET http://localhost:4567/api/v3/ping⁠ answers 200. Set NODEBB_ADMIN_PASSWORD every time you create the nodebb container, not only the first time: config.json lives inside the container, so a new container runs setup again and exits at once without it. The admin password itself is set only on an empty database.

⁠The full ReadyStack Agent-ready Archive

The complete --network=none build kit for this image — plus admin/DB/API handbooks, the build's validation records, and its build provenance records — is at readystack.dev/buy.html⁠. A clean-room rebuild from this release's archive on an egress-blocked host reproduced its linux/amd64 digest sha256:3a35473d0f09ce508e1acebf7c77e58e32671be74f66d1bad8192ab5832c5657 on 2026-10-20.

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