Run Flower using Docker

Start your Flower journey with our pre-made Docker images on Docker Hub, supporting amd64 and arm64v8 architectures.

Starting with Flower 1.40.0, the Alpine variants of flwr/base, flwr/superlink, and flwr/supernode use Alpine 3.23 and Python 3.13. Alpine 3.22 images are no longer built for new releases. When upgrading to Flower 1.40.0 or later, update the Flower version in an explicitly pinned tag and use the -py3.13-alpine3.23 suffix.

Our Quickstart guide walks you through containerizing a Flower project and running it end to end using Docker.

Getting Started

• Quickstart with Docker

Running in Production

• Enable TLS for Secure Connections
• Persist the State of the SuperLink

Advanced Options

• Set Environment Variables
• Run with Root User Privileges
• Run ServerApp or ClientApp as a Subprocess
• Pin a Docker Image to a Specific Version
• Use a Different Flower Version

Run Flower using Docker Compose

• Quickstart with Docker Compose
• Run Flower Quickstart Examples with Docker Compose
• Deploy Flower on Multiple Machines with Docker Compose