Install Label Studio Enterprise On-premises using Docker Compose

Install Label Studio Enterprise on-premises if you need to meet strong privacy regulations, legal requirements, or want to manage a custom installation on your own infrastructure using Docker or public cloud. If you want to use a different installation method:

You can use Kubernetes and Helm to deploy Label Studio Enterprise in the cloud. See Deploy Label Studio Enterprise on Kubernetes.
You can run Label Studio Enterprise in an airgapped environment, and no data leaves your infrastructure. See Install Label Studio Enterprise without public internet access.

See Secure Label Studio for more details about security and hardening for Label Studio Enterprise.

To install Label Studio Community Edition, see Install Label Studio. This page is specific to the Enterprise version of Label Studio.

System requirements

You can install Label Studio on a Linux, Windows, or MacOSX machine running Python 3.6 or later.

Port requirements

Label Studio expects port 8080 to be open by default. To use a different port, specify it when starting Label Studio. See Start Label Studio.

Server requirements

Allocate disk space according to the amount of data you plan to label. As a benchmark, 1 million labeling tasks take up approximately 2.3GB on disk when using the SQLite database. 50GB of disk space is recommended for production instances.

Use a minimum of 8GB RAM, but 16GB RAM is recommended. for example, t3.large or t3.xlarge on Amazon AWS.

For more on using Label Studio at scale and labeling performance, see Start Label Studio.

Software requirements

PostgreSQL version 11.5 or SQLite version 3.35 or higher.

Install Label Studio Enterprise using Docker

Log in to a Docker registry.
Add the license file.
Start the server using Docker Compose.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have an authorization token to retrieve Docker images and a current license file. If you are a Label Studio Enterprise customer and do not have access, contact us to receive an authorization token and a copy of your license file.

Make sure Docker Compose is installed on your system.

After you install Label Studio Enterprise, the app is automatically connected to the following running services:

PostgresSQL (versions 11, 12, 13)
Redis (version 5)

Log in to a Docker registry

You must be authorized to access Label Studio Enterprise images.

Set up the Docker login to retrieve the latest Docker image:

docker login --username heartexlabs

When prompted to enter the password, enter the token. If login succeeds, a ~/.docker/config.json file is created with the authorization settings.

note

If you have default registries specified when logging into Docker, you might need to explicitly specify the registry: docker login --username heartexlabs docker.io.

Add the license file

After you retrieve the latest Label Studio Enterprise image, add the license file. You can’t start the Docker image without a license file.

Create a working directory called label-studio-enterprise and place the license file in it.
```
mkdir -p label-studio-enterprise
cd label-studio-enterprise
```
Move the license file, license.txt, to the label-studio-enterprise directory.

Start using Docker Compose

To run Label Studio Enterprise in production, start it using Docker compose. This configuration lets you connect Label Studio to external databases and services.

Create a file, label-studio-enterprise/env.list with the required environment variables:

# Specify the path to the license file. 
# Alternatively, it can be a URL like LICENSE=https://lic.heartex.ai/db/20210203-1234-ab123456.lic
LICENSE=/label-studio-enterprise/license.txt

# Specify the FQDN name with port if differs from 80
LABEL_STUDIO_HOST=http://localhost/

# Database engine (PostgreSQL by default)
DJANGO_DB=default

# Default configuration
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=htx.settings.label_studio

# PostgreSQL database name
POSTGRE_NAME=postgres

# PostgreSQL database user
POSTGRE_USER=postgres

# PostgreSQL database password
POSTGRE_PASSWORD=

# PostgreSQL database host
POSTGRE_HOST=db

# PostgreSQL database port
POSTGRE_PORT=5432

# Optional: PostgreSQL SSL mode
# POSTGRE_SSL_MODE=require

# Optional: Specify Postgre SSL certificate
# POSTGRE_SSLROOTCERT=postgre-ca-bundle.pem

# Optional: Client-side certificate and key
# POSTGRE_SSLCERT=client.crt
# POSTGRE_SSLKEY=client.key

# Redis location e.g. redis[s]://[:password]@localhost:6379/1
# rediss:// scheme is mandatory to use SSL  
REDIS_LOCATION=redis://redis:6379/1

# Optional: Redis database
# REDIS_DB=1

# Optional: Redis password
# REDIS_PASSWORD=12345

# Optional: Redis socket timeout
# REDIS_SOCKET_TIMEOUT=3600

# Optional: Require certificate
# REDIS_SSL_CERTS_REQS=required

# Optional: Specify Redis SSL certificate
# REDIS_SSL_CA_CERTS=redis-ca-bundle.pem

# Optional: Client-side certificate and key
# REDIS_SSL_CERTFILE=client.crt
# REDIS_SSL_KEYFILE=client.key

# Optional: Specify SSL termination certificate & key
# Files should be placed in the directory "certs" at the same directory as docker-compose.yml file
# NGINX_SSL_CERT=/certs/cert.pem
# NGINX_SSL_CERT_KEY=/certs/cert.key

After you set all the environment variables, create the following docker-compose.yml:

version: '3.8'

services:
  nginx:
    image: heartexlabs/label-studio-enterprise:VERSION
    ports:
      - "80:8085"
      - "443:8086"
    depends_on:
      - app
    restart: on-failure
    env_file:
      - env.list
    command: nginx
    volumes:
      - ./certs:/certs:ro
    working_dir: /label-studio-enterprise

  app:
    image: heartexlabs/label-studio-enterprise:VERSION
    restart: on-failure
    env_file:
      - env.list
    command: label-studio-uwsgi
    volumes:
      - ./mydata:/label-studio/data:rw
      - ./license.txt:/label-studio-enterprise/license.txt:ro
    working_dir: /label-studio-enterprise

  rqworkers_low:
    image: heartexlabs/label-studio-enterprise:VERSION
    depends_on:
      - app
    env_file:
      - env.list
    volumes:
      - ./mydata:/label-studio/data:rw
      - ./license.txt:/label-studio-enterprise/license.txt:ro
    working_dir: /label-studio-enterprise
    command: [ "python3", "/label-studio-enterprise/label_studio_enterprise/manage.py", "rqworker", "low" ]

  rqworkers_default:
    image: heartexlabs/label-studio-enterprise:VERSION
    depends_on:
      - app
    env_file:
      - env.list
    volumes:
      - ./mydata:/label-studio/data:rw
      - ./license.txt:/label-studio-enterprise/license.txt:ro
    working_dir: /label-studio-enterprise
    command: [ "python3", "/label-studio-enterprise/label_studio_enterprise/manage.py", "rqworker", "default"]

  rqworkers_high:
    image: heartexlabs/label-studio-enterprise:VERSION
    depends_on:
      - app
    env_file:
      - env.list
    volumes:
      - ./mydata:/label-studio/data:rw
      - ./license.txt:/label-studio-enterprise/license.txt:ro
    working_dir: /label-studio-enterprise
    command: [ "python3", "/label-studio-enterprise/label_studio_enterprise/manage.py", "rqworker", "high" ]

  rqworkers_critical:
    image: heartexlabs/label-studio-enterprise:VERSION
    depends_on:
      - app
    env_file:
      - env.list
    volumes:
      - ./mydata:/label-studio/data:rw
      - ./license.txt:/label-studio-enterprise/license.txt:ro
    working_dir: /label-studio-enterprise
    command: [ "python3", "/label-studio-enterprise/label_studio_enterprise/manage.py", "rqworker", "critical" ]

Run Docker Compose:

docker-compose up

note

If you expose port 80, you must start Docker with sudo.

Get the Docker image version

To check the version of the Label Studio Enterprise Docker image, use the docker ps command on the host.

From the command line, run the following as root or using sudo and review the output:

$ docker ps
03b88eebdb65   heartexlabs/label-studio-enterprise:2.2.8-1   "uwsgi --ini deploy/…"   36 hours ago   Up 36 hours   0.0.0.0:80->8000/tcp   label-studio-enterprise_app_1

In this example output, the image column displays the Docker image and version number. The image heartexlabs/label-studio-enterprise:2.2.8-1 is using the version 2.2.8-1.

Install Label Studio Enterprise On-premises using Docker Compose

System requirements

Port requirements

Server requirements

Software requirements

Install Label Studio Enterprise using Docker

Prerequisites

Log in to a Docker registry

Add the license file

Start using Docker Compose

Get the Docker image version

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