The LinuxServer.io team brings you another container release featuring:
- regular and timely application updates
- easy user mappings (PGID, PUID)
- custom base image with s6 overlay
- weekly base OS updates with common layers across the entire LinuxServer.io ecosystem to minimise space usage, down time and bandwidth
- regular security updates
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Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, virtual reality, and computer games. This image does not support GPU rendering out of the box only accelerated workspace experience
We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here and our announcement here.
Simply pulling lscr.io/linuxserver/blender:latest should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.
The architectures supported by this image are:
| Architecture | Available | Tag |
|---|---|---|
| x86-64 | ✅ | amd64-<version tag> |
| arm64 | ✅ | arm64v8-<version tag> |
| armhf | ✅ | arm32v7-<version tag> |
The application can be accessed at:
By default the user/pass is abc/abc, if you change your password or want to login manually to the GUI session for any reason use the following link:
You can also force login on the '/' path without this parameter by passing the environment variable -e AUTO_LOGIN=false.
This only applies to your desktop experience, this container is capable of supporting accelerated rendering with /dev/dri mounted in, but the AMD HIP and Nvidia CUDA runtimes are massive which are not installed by default in this container.
To leverage hardware acceleration you will need to mount /dev/dri video device inside of the conainer.
--device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri
We will automatically ensure the abc user inside of the container has the proper permissions to access this device.
Hardware acceleration users for Nvidia will need to install the container runtime provided by Nvidia on their host, instructions can be found here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker
We automatically add the necessary environment variable that will utilise all the features available on a GPU on the host. Once nvidia-docker is installed on your host you will need to re/create the docker container with the nvidia container runtime --runtime=nvidia and add an environment variable -e NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all (can also be set to a specific gpu's UUID, this can be discovered by running nvidia-smi --query-gpu=gpu_name,gpu_uuid --format=csv ). NVIDIA automatically mounts the GPU and drivers from your host into the container.
Arm devices can run this image, but generally should not mount in /dev/dri. The OpenGL ES version is not high enough to run Blender. The program can run on these platforms though, leveraging CPU LLVMPipe rendering.
Due to lack of arm32/64 binaries from the upstream project, our arm32/64 images install the latest version from the ubuntu repo, which is usually behind and thus the version the image is tagged with does not match the version contained.
This should match the layout on the computer you are accessing the container from. The keyboard layouts available for use are:
- da-dk-qwerty- Danish keyboard
- de-ch-qwertz- Swiss German keyboard (qwertz)
- de-de-qwertz- German keyboard (qwertz) - OSK available
- en-gb-qwerty- English (UK) keyboard
- en-us-qwerty- English (US) keyboard - OSK available DEFAULT
- es-es-qwerty- Spanish keyboard - OSK available
- fr-ch-qwertz- Swiss French keyboard (qwertz)
- fr-fr-azerty- French keyboard (azerty) - OSK available
- it-it-qwerty- Italian keyboard - OSK available
- ja-jp-qwerty- Japanese keyboard
- pt-br-qwerty- Portuguese Brazilian keyboard
- sv-se-qwerty- Swedish keyboard
- tr-tr-qwerty- Turkish-Q keyboard
Here are some example snippets to help you get started creati 8000 ng a container.
docker-compose (recommended, click here for more info)
---
version: "2.1"
services:
blender:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/blender:latest
container_name: blender
security_opt:
- seccomp:unconfined #optional
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ=Europe/London
- SUBFOLDER=/ #optional
- KEYBOARD=en-us-qwerty #optional
volumes:
- /path/to/config:/config
ports:
- 3000:3000
devices:
- /dev/dri:/dev/dri #optional
restart: unless-stoppeddocker cli (click here for more info)
docker run -d \
--name=blender \
--security-opt seccomp=unconfined `#optional` \
-e PUID=1000 \
-e PGID=1000 \
-e TZ=Europe/London \
-e SUBFOLDER=/ `#optional` \
-e KEYBOARD=en-us-qwerty `#optional` \
-p 3000:3000 \
-v /path/to/config:/config \
--device /dev/dri:/dev/dri `#optional` \
--restart unless-stopped \
lscr.io/linuxserver/blender:latestContainer images are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.
| Parameter | Function |
|---|---|
-p 3000 |
Blender desktop gui |
-e PUID=1000 |
for UserID - see below for explanation |
-e PGID=1000 |
for GroupID - see below for explanation |
-e TZ=Europe/London |
Specify a timezone to use EG Europe/London |
-e SUBFOLDER=/ |
Specify a subfolder to use with reverse proxies, IE /subfolder/ |
-e KEYBOARD=en-us-qwerty |
See the keyboard layouts section for more information and options. |
-v /config |
Users home directory in the container, stores local files and settings |
--device /dev/dri |
Add this for hardware acceleration (Linux hosts only) |
--security-opt seccomp=unconfined |
For Docker Engine only, this may be required depending on your Docker and storage configuration. |
You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend FILE__.
As an example:
-e FILE__PASSWORD=/run/secrets/mysecretpasswordWill set the environment variable PASSWORD based on the contents of the /run/secrets/mysecretpassword file.
For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional -e UMASK=022 setting.
Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up here before asking for support.
When using volumes (-v flags) permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.
Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.
In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id user as below:
$ id username
uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)
We publish various Docker Mods to enable additional functionality within the containers. The list of Mods available for this image (if any) as well as universal mods that can be applied to any one of our images can be accessed via the dynamic badges above.
- Shell access whilst the container is running:
docker exec -it blender /bin/bash - To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:
docker logs -f blender - container version number
docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' blender
- image version number
docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' lscr.io/linuxserver/blender:latest
Most of our images are static, versioned, and require an image update and container recreation to update the app inside. With some exceptions (ie. nextcloud, plex), we do not recommend or support updating apps inside the container. Please consult the Application Setup section above to see if it is recommended for the image.
Below are the instructions for updating containers:
- Update all images:
docker-compose pull- or update a single image:
docker-compose pull blender
- or update a single image:
- Let compose update all containers as necessary:
docker-compose up -d- or update a single container:
docker-compose up -d blender
- or update a single container:
- You can also remove the old dangling images:
docker image prune
- Update the image:
docker pull lscr.io/linuxserver/blender:latest - Stop the running container:
docker stop blender - Delete the container:
docker rm blender - Recreate a new container with the same docker run parameters as instructed above (if mapped correctly to a host folder, your
/configfolder and settings will be preserved) - You can also remove the old dangling images:
docker image prune
-
Pull the latest image at its tag and replace it with the same env variables in one run:
docker run --rm \ -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \ containrrr/watchtower \ --run-once blender
-
You can also remove the old dangling images:
docker image prune
Note: We do not endorse the use of Watchtower as a solution to automated updates of existing Docker containers. In fact we generally discourage automated updates. However, this is a useful tool for one-time manual updates of containers where you have forgotten the original parameters. In the long term, we highly recommend using Docker Compose.
- We recommend Diun for update notifications. Other tools that automatically update containers unattended are not recommended or supported.
If you want to make local modifications to these images for development purposes or just to customize the logic:
git clone https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-blender.git
cd docker-blender
docker build \
--no-cache \
--pull \
-t lscr.io/linuxserver/blender:latest .The ARM variants can be built on x86_64 hardware using multiarch/qemu-user-static
docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static:register --resetOnce registered you can define the dockerfile to use with -f Dockerfile.aarch64.
- 06.05.22: - Use the full semver version in image tags. Arm32/64 version tags are inaccurate due to installing from ubuntu repo, which is usually behind.
- 12.03.22: - Initial Release.