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Clash as a Service ​

While Clash is meant to be run in the background, there's currently no elegant way to implement daemons with Golang, hence we recommend you to daemonize Clash with third-party tools.

systemd ​

Copy Clash binary to /usr/local/bin and configuration files to /etc/clash:

shell
cp clash /usr/local/bin
cp config.yaml /etc/clash/
cp Country.mmdb /etc/clash/

Create the systemd configuration file at /etc/systemd/system/clash.service:

ini
[Unit]
Description=Clash daemon, A rule-based proxy in Go.
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/clash -d /etc/clash

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

After that you're supposed to reload systemd:

shell
systemctl daemon-reload

Launch clashd on system startup with:

shell
systemctl enable clash

Launch clashd immediately with:

shell
systemctl start clash

Check the health and logs of Clash with:

shell
systemctl status clash
journalctl -xe

Credits to ktechmidas for this guide. (#754)

Docker ​

We provide pre-built images of Clash and Clash Premium. Therefore you can deploy Clash with Docker Compose if you're on Linux. However, you should be advised that it's not recommended to run Clash Premium in a container.

WARNING

This setup will not work on macOS systems due to the lack of host networking and TUN support in Docker for Mac.

yaml
services:
  clash:
    image: ghcr.io/dreamacro/clash
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - ./config.yaml:/root/.config/clash/config.yaml:ro
      # - ./ui:/ui:ro # dashboard volume
    ports:
      - "7890:7890"
      - "7891:7891"
      # - "8080:8080" # The External Controller (RESTful API)
    network_mode: "bridge"
yaml
services:
  clash:
    image: ghcr.io/dreamacro/clash-premium
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - ./config.yaml:/root/.config/clash/config.yaml:ro
      # - ./ui:/ui:ro # dashboard volume
    ports:
      - "7890:7890"
      - "7891:7891"
      # - "8080:8080" # The External Controller (RESTful API)
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    devices:
      - /dev/net/tun
    network_mode: "host"

Save as docker-compose.yaml and place your config.yaml in the same directory.

TIP

Before proceeding, refer to your platform documentations about time synchronisation - things will break if time is not in sync.

When you're ready, run the following commands to bring up Clash:

shell
docker-compose up -d

You can view the logs with:

shell
docker-compose logs

Stop Clash with:

shell
docker-compose stop