Easy Bambu Studio Setup with Docker

Who is this for?

This is for those who have 1(or more) Bambu Labs 3D Printer(s). This silos the Bambu Studio app by leveraging the Kasm framework, you can find out more about that here After trying the documented build for docker, and struggling, I found an article on Mariushosting here using docker compose, which worked great. This is just a distilled-down version of that.

Requirements

• Linux OS(bare metal or virtual/lxc)
• 4GB RAM(minimum)
• 2 CPU cores
• 15GB storage(not including OS)

Setup Ubuntu 20.04 LXC with Docker

This is as simple as it gets, pulled from a list of scripts found here.

bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/ct/docker.sh)"

Installing Docker on an Ubuntu System Directly

This step is a condensed version of the steps found in Docker’s documentation.

for pkg in docker.io docker-doc docker-compose docker-compose-v2 podman-docker containerd runc; do sudo apt-get remove $pkg; done
# Add Docker's official GPG key:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

# Add the repository to Apt sources:
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

Prep LXC/Ubuntu

We want to set up a user that can access Docker without being root, we do that with the commands below.

adduser dave # Fill out questions as you wish
usermod -aG docker dave
apt update && apt -y upgrade

Create docker-compose.yml

Now let’s create a directory to store the docker-compose.yml and other data files.

cd ~
mkdir bambu-studio
cd bambu-studio

Then run the following to create a docker-compose.yml

nano docker-compose.yml

Then paste the following into the docker-compose.yml file, after that hit Ctrl+x and then y to save the file.

version: "3.9"
services:
  bambustudio:
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/bambustudio:latest
    container_name: Bambu-Studio
    hostname: bambustudio
    mem_limit: 4g
    cpu_shares: 1024
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true
      - seccomp:unconfined
    healthcheck:
      test: curl -f http://localhost:3000/ || exit 1
    ports:
      - 8233:3000
    volumes:
      - /home/bambu/bambustudio:/config:rw
    environment:
      TZ:   America/Chicago
      PUID:   1026
      PGID:   100
      TITLE: Bambu-Studio
      CUSTOM_USER:  bambu
      PASSWORD: password
    restart: on-failure:5

Starting things up

Keep in mind this will take a while to download on the first run

Run the following command to get started.

docker compose up -d

Now you should be able to access the site from http://server-ip:8233 and use the username and password to log in to Bumbu Studio running in Kasm. That’s it! If you found this article helpful please consider buying me a coffee on the ko-fi link below. Till then fair winds and following seas.