litellm/docker
yuneng-jiang 487074f602
chore(build): move the Admin UI toolchain to Node 24 (#35801)
* chore(build): move the Admin UI toolchain to Node 24

Node 18 and Node 20 both reached end of life (2025-04-30 and 2026-04-30), and
the release images along with every CI lane were still building on them. Node 24
is the current LTS through 2028-04-30, so this moves the four UI build images,
the CircleCI lanes, and the four GitHub Actions workflows onto it

Node 24 also ships npm 11.17, which is the first line that implements the
min-release-age setting this repo already carries in its .npmrc files. On npm 10
the key is parsed and discarded, so the release-age gate has had no effect
regardless of its value. Tightening the dashboard's engines range and turning on
engine-strict makes an unsupported npm fail loudly rather than skip the gate
quietly, and a new step in the UI build workflow probes an impossible cooldown
so an inert setting cannot pass unnoticed again

Node 24's bundled undici tightened its brand check on RequestInit.signal, which
rejects the AbortSignal jsdom installs and broke the two cases in
src/lib/http/api.test.ts that rebase a request onto a runtime base url. Under
jsdom the Request global comes from Node while AbortSignal comes from jsdom;
tests/jsdomFetchEnv.ts delegates to the jsdom environment and then restores
Node's native AbortController and AbortSignal so both come from one realm.
Upgrading jsdom does not address this, as jsdom still does not own Request

The workflows now read ui/litellm-dashboard/.nvmrc instead of repeating a
literal, so the Node version has a single source of truth, and ui/Dockerfile is
pinned by digest to match the other three build images. The lockfile changes are
npm 11 normalising the engines range and dropping optional peer entries it no
longer records

* fix(build): point every Admin UI build script at .nvmrc

The enterprise Docker path was left on Node 18. docker/build_admin_ui.sh runs
only when enterprise/enterprise_ui/enterprise_colors.json is present, which it
never is in the OSS tree, so neither CI nor a default image build reaches it;
it pinned nvm to v18.17.0 and then built the dashboard, which now requires Node
24, so a customized enterprise image would have failed EBADENGINE

All three UI build scripts now resolve the version from
ui/litellm-dashboard/.nvmrc rather than carrying their own pin, so the Node
version has a single home across Docker, CI, and local builds. build_ui.sh was
on v20 and build_ui_custom_path.sh on v18.17.0

Also drops the dependency-cooldown probe from the UI build workflow. The
engines floor plus engine-strict already fails an unsupported npm loudly at
install time, so the probe was redundant, and treating any nonzero exit from a
live registry call as proof of enforcement made it unsound besides
2026-08-04 12:36:07 -07:00
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build_from_pip build(deps): update ddtrace to the 4.x line 2026-07-15 17:23:17 -07:00
tests fix(docker.non_root): use numeric UID 65534 for K8s runAsNonRoot (#26268) 2026-04-22 18:00:04 -07:00
.env.example Revert "build(Dockerfile): move prisma build to dockerfile" 2024-01-06 09:51:44 +05:30
build_admin_ui.sh chore(build): move the Admin UI toolchain to Node 24 (#35801) 2026-08-04 12:36:07 -07:00
component_entrypoint.sh fix(docker): honor USE_DDTRACE in the componentized gateway and backend images (#35490) 2026-08-01 14:12:59 -07:00
Dockerfile.database chore(build): move the Admin UI toolchain to Node 24 (#35801) 2026-08-04 12:36:07 -07:00
Dockerfile.non_root chore(build): move the Admin UI toolchain to Node 24 (#35801) 2026-08-04 12:36:07 -07:00
entrypoint.sh build: migrate packaging, CI, and Docker from Poetry to uv (#25007) 2026-04-09 11:46:23 -07:00
install_auto_router.sh build: migrate packaging, CI, and Docker from Poetry to uv (#25007) 2026-04-09 11:46:23 -07:00
prod_entrypoint.sh fix: remove separate health app 2026-05-07 16:04:56 -07:00
README.md fix(mcp): block arbitrary command execution via stdio transport 2026-04-08 19:42:37 +05:30

Docker Development Guide

This guide provides instructions for building and running the LiteLLM application using Docker and Docker Compose.

Prerequisites

  • Docker
  • Docker Compose

Building and Running the Application

To build and run the application, you will use the docker-compose.yml file located in the root of the project. This file is configured to use the Dockerfile.non_root for a secure, non-root container environment.

1. Set the Master Key

The application requires a LITELLM_MASTER_KEY for signing and validating tokens. You must set this key as an environment variable before running the application.

Create a .env file in the root of the project and add the following line:

LITELLM_MASTER_KEY=your-secret-key

Replace your-secret-key with a strong, randomly generated secret.

2. Build and Run the Containers

Once you have set the LITELLM_MASTER_KEY, you can build and run the containers using the following command:

docker compose up -d --build

This command will:

  • Build the Docker image using Dockerfile.non_root.
  • Start the litellm, litellm_db, and prometheus services in detached mode (-d).
  • The --build flag ensures that the image is rebuilt if there are any changes to the Dockerfile or the application code.

3. Verifying the Application is Running

You can check the status of the running containers with the following command:

docker compose ps

To view the logs of the litellm container, run:

docker compose logs -f litellm

4. Stopping the Application

To stop the running containers, use the following command:

docker compose down

Hardened / Offline Testing

To ensure changes are safe for non-root, read-only root filesystems and restricted egress, always validate with the hardened compose file:

docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.hardened.yml build --no-cache
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.hardened.yml up -d

This setup:

  • Builds from docker/Dockerfile.non_root with Prisma engines and Node toolchain baked into the image.
  • Runs the proxy as a non-root user with a read-only rootfs and only writable tmpfs mounts:
    • /app/cache (Prisma/NPM cache; backing PRISMA_BINARY_CACHE_DIR, NPM_CONFIG_CACHE, XDG_CACHE_HOME)
    • /app/migrations (Prisma migration workspace; backing LITELLM_MIGRATION_DIR)
  • Pre-builds and serves the admin UI from read-only paths:
    • /var/lib/litellm/ui (pre-restructured Next.js UI with .litellm_ui_ready marker)
    • /var/lib/litellm/assets (UI logos and assets)
  • Routes all outbound traffic through a local Squid proxy that denies egress, so Prisma migrations must use the cached CLI and engines.

You should also verify offline Prisma behaviour with:

docker run --rm --network none --entrypoint prisma ghcr.io/berriai/litellm:main-stable --version

This command should succeed (showing engine versions) even with --network none, confirming that Prisma binaries are available without network access.

Troubleshooting

  • build_admin_ui.sh: not found: This error can occur if the Docker build context is not set correctly. Ensure that you are running the docker-compose command from the root of the project.
  • Master key is not initialized: This error means the LITELLM_MASTER_KEY environment variable is not set. Make sure you have created a .env file in the project root with the LITELLM_MASTER_KEY defined.