# Mealie

Self-hosted recipe manager with persistent application data and a PostgreSQL database.

## Deployment layout

- **Compose:** `/srv/docker/mealie/docker-compose.yml`
- **Static configuration/source:** no additional static configuration or build source
- **Non-secret environment:** registration policy, runtime UID/GID, timezone, public URL, PostgreSQL topology,
and OpenAI model are declared inline in Compose; there is no project-local `.env`
- **Secrets:** `/srv/docker/secrets/mealie/.env`
- **NVMe application state:** `/srv/appdata/mealie/data` and `/srv/appdata/mealie/postgres`
- **Bulk HDD data:** none
- **Other mounts:** none

Secrets are never committed to this repository. The central secret environment
is supplied to the Mealie and PostgreSQL services.

## Dependencies and recovery

- **Networks/dependencies:** Mealie depends on the healthy PostgreSQL service through the private
`mealie_internal` network and uses the external `npm_proxy` network at `192.168.98.13`
- **Back up:** `/srv/appdata/mealie/data`, `/srv/appdata/mealie/postgres`, and the separately protected Mealie
secret environment
- **Re-creatable:** the Mealie and PostgreSQL containers; no persistent cache is declared