What is Actual Budget ? 🔗

Actual Budget is an OSS project (hosted on Github).

The README reads the following:

Actual is a local-first personal finance tool. It is 100% free and open-source, written in NodeJS, it has a synchronization element so that all your changes can move between devices without any heavy lifting.

Running Actual Budget 🔗

In my case I’m running Actual through Docker with the following configuration:

version: '3'
services:
  actual_server:
    image: docker.io/actualbudget/actual-server:latest
    ports:
      - '5006:5006'
    volumes:
      - ./actual-data:/data
    restart: unless-stopped

Then I just have to run docker compose up -d to run the server (which is tied to Caddy to offer internet and HTTPS access).

Updating Actual Budget 🔗

The documentation states that you can run:

$ docker-compose down && docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d

But I had some issues on my side with this command so I’m just running the following:

$ docker-stop <instance_id>
$ docker pull docker.io/actualbudget/actual-server:latest
$ docker compose up -d

And your actual server is up, ready to go and up-to-date

I might do a little architecture schema post explaining how I run my self-hosted apps