Self hosted knowledge base

We are looking for a lightweight knowledge base system, with roughly these requirements:

self hosted. This is a rock hard requirement.
lightweight. We don’t need super fancy editing engines nor real time collaboration. The smaller the footprint the better.
searchable. As we are going officeless soon, the search feature must be very good, including whatever measures you may imagine. Tags, fuzzy matching, and the likes. If it involves ElasticSearch or something along this line, so be it.
dockerizable (is that a word?) Our whole infrastructure runs on Docker, so if we could put such a thing in a container, that’s a big plus (although this one is not a show stopper)
mutable. This seems obvious, but with so much hype around immutable stuff these days (cryptocurrencies, anyone?) i think it worth a mention. I should be able to edit the entries of my colleague and vice versa, but it should be visible that i did. If it even has history, or edits that must be approved, that’s even better.

Do you use such a system, or develop one? It’s time to reply on this post 😉

I have been using gollum for quite some time. If you don't mind a ruby based application, it fits all the criteria.

This looks promising indeed! At least Codi will have a competition 😃

It may sound terrible, but why not WordPress? See athemes.com/collections/best-knowledge-base-wiki-…

This is a definite no-go. I have terrible experiences with WP, old and new. Both security, maintenance, and learning curve is a bit rough area, despite being a very popular platform. Also, even though a lot of plugins exist, it is primarily a blogging system. It’s barely good for anything else on its own.

You can actually get Confluence Server for $10/yr (up to 10 users, with renewals being $10/yr, if you care about updates - if not, it'll still run on the last version you've updated it to), and - I have to say - a pretty badass VPS for $7.00/mo @ VPSDime.

Maybe CodiMD ?

You can write docs in Markdown and track edits. Also supports tags and search 🤔

Exactly what i was looking for! I already looked at HackMD before, but since i haven’t found the option for the self hosted version, i gave up (now that i read CodiMD’s readme it’s clear why i didn’t find it.)

Maybe just MediaWiki (like Wikipedia)?

Confluence is popular of course, but pretty expensive, and it doesn't sound like you need whatever extras it offers over free alternatives.

I considered it, but it doesn’t necessarily fit the “lightweight” criterion. Also, the Wiki markup is pretty alien to most of my colleagues, while Markdown is basically in their fingers already.

Gergely Polonkai I wasn't sure what footprint exactly you're trying to avoid with "lightweight". Learning curve? CPU/RAM usage? Maintenance effort? Is it a problem if there are unused features, or if it has a lot of lines of code?

Both maintenance effort and learning curve are important factors. I don’t necessarily mind unused features, but it’s good to keep in mind that any feature, used or not, can be an attack vector (even if this system will be an internal only one)

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