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Mealie

v1.0.0
Load

Up to 20 users in a few households (the docs' SQLite range), up to 2,000 recipes with images, daily meal planning, shared shopping lists and imports.

Options

Recommended resources

App requirements + system baseline + safety headroom. Nothing else is added, and nothing is rounded to a machine size.

vCPU 1.32, RAM 2.7 GiB, Disk 17.96 GiB

vCPU1.32
RAM2.7GiB
Disk17.96GiB
Breakdown
LineFromvCPURAM (GiB)Disk (GiB)Sources
MealieMealie (web UI and API) · Medium load117.4171234567
System baselineOperating system, Container runtime (Docker Engine, containerd), System logs (journald), plus logs for 2 containers0.11.258.28910111213
Safety headroomvCPU 20%, RAM 20%, disk 15% of apps + baseline0.220.452.343149151216
Recommended total1.322.717.96
Sources
  1. Mealie Docs: Installing with SQLite (compose: v3.28.0, 9925:9000, memory limit 1000M, /app/data, ALLOW_SIGNUP false, PUID/PGID, TZ, BASE_URL; 1-20 users) (Mealie, read 14 Oct 2026)
  2. Mealie Docs: Backend Configuration (PUID/PGID 911, BASE_URL, TZ, ALLOW_SIGNUP, DB_ENGINE, UVICORN_WORKERS 1, API_PORT 9000) (Mealie, read 14 Oct 2026)
  3. Mealie Docs: Backups and Restores (/admin/backups, copy /app/data for SQLite, Postgres restore needs a superuser) (Mealie, read 14 Oct 2026)
  4. mealie v3.28.0 services/backups_v2/backup_v2.py (zip of database.json and the data dir, backups and .temp excluded, .secret restored) (Mealie, read 14 Oct 2026)
  5. mealie v3.28.0 core/logger/logconf.prod.json (mealie.log rotated at 10,000,000 B, 3 backups) (Mealie, read 14 Oct 2026)
  6. GHCR manifest of ghcr.io/mealie-recipes/mealie:v3.28.0 (linux/amd64, anonymous pull token): 427,358,439 B compressed; 14 layers decompressed and counted: 1,206,041,600 B (Mealie, read 14 Oct 2026)
  7. Docker: the containerd image store keeps image layers both compressed and uncompressed (Mealie, read 14 Oct 2026)
  8. Ubuntu Server: System requirements (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  9. Google Kubernetes Engine: About GKE node sizing (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  10. ANAROQ measurement: dockerd and containerd at rest (Ubuntu 24.04, Docker 29.8.2) (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  11. Docker Community Forums: Docker resource usage & overhead (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  12. journald.conf(5), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  13. Docker Docs: Local file logging driver (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  14. AWS Compute Optimizer: Rightsizing recommendation preferences (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  15. Kubernetes: Node-pressure Eviction (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  16. mke2fs(8), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
Basis
Catalog release
2026.10.10
Sizing policy
2026.10.0
Profile Mealie
1.0.0

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