claude-code · Docker Compose

Claude Code is Anthropic's coding agent CLI, packaged to run in a container. This page runs it on Docker Compose with copy-paste examples; every file in this directory is shown below exactly as it exists in the repository.

See the tool overview for image variants, tags, and registries.

Requirements

Docker or a compatible runtime
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set in your environment (never baked into the image)

Files in this directory

`compose.sh`

bash

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

case "${WORKSPACE:-}" in
  /*) ;;
  "") echo "Set WORKSPACE to an absolute host path." >&2; exit 2 ;;
  *) echo "WORKSPACE must be an absolute host path: $WORKSPACE" >&2; exit 2 ;;
esac

script_dir=$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)
cd "$script_dir"
exec docker compose "$@"

`docker-compose.yml`

yaml

# WORKSPACE="$PWD" ./compose.sh --env-file "$credentials" run --rm claude
name: claude-code

services:
  claude:
    image: ghcr.io/hambn/claude-code:latest
    container_name: claude-code
    hostname: claude-code
    networks: [claude-code]
    environment:
      ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: ${ANTHROPIC_API_KEY:?set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY}
    volumes:
      - ${WORKSPACE:?Set WORKSPACE to an absolute host path}:/workspace
    stdin_open: true
    tty: true

networks:
  claude-code:
    name: claude-code

`airgapped.docker-compose.yml`

yaml

# Offline: build from the repo's Dockerfile instead of pulling a registry image.
# Run with the credential file created in README.md:
#   WORKSPACE="$PWD" ./compose.sh --env-file "$credentials" -f airgapped.docker-compose.yml run --build --rm claude
name: claude-code

services:
  claude:
    build:
      context: ../../images/ubuntu-browser
    image: claude-code:airgapped
    pull_policy: never
    container_name: claude-code
    hostname: claude-code
    networks: [claude-code]
    environment:
      ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: ${ANTHROPIC_API_KEY:?set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY}
    volumes:
      - ${WORKSPACE:?Set WORKSPACE to an absolute host path}:/workspace
    stdin_open: true
    tty: true

networks:
  claude-code:
    name: claude-code

More examples

Point the stack at a different workspace

bash

WORKSPACE=/srv/projects/my-app ./compose.sh run --rm claude-code

Use a pinned image

Edit image: in docker-compose.yml to any moving tag from the image table, then re-run the helper.