Official Docker / standalone workerd packaging for self-hosting?

[HarvardChin]

The README says self-hosting on your own server via workerd is "COMING SOON", and Kenton confirmed the intent directly on the HN launch thread:

"This is 100% open source and self-hostable."

"You can run it at home if you want. There's even a Home Assistant Gatekeeper."

"Honestly it is faster running locally."

workerd "can be used directly without wrangler, and is production-capable in that format" — while noting deployment configuration examples were still being prepared.

Right now the only two paths in the repo are pnpm run-local (wrangler dev — the README itself says this "is not meant for production use") and wrangler deploy (pushes straight to a Cloudflare account). There's no config anywhere for running the ~16 services (workshop-backend + all the gatekeeper workers) as standalone workerd outside either of those.

Given the intent is clearly there, a couple of questions:

• Is an official Docker image / docker-compose setup on the roadmap alongside the raw workerd config work, or is Docker specifically out of scope even once the standalone-workerd story lands?
• Any rough sense of what's blocking it — is it mainly the workerd capnp config generation, Durable Object persistence outside wrangler's dev simulation, or something else (e.g. Dynamic Workers/Worker Loader behavior outside Cloudflare's edge)?
• Is this something the community could help scope out, or is it better to wait since the shape of it might still be in flux internally?

Not trying to rush anything — just trying to understand what "coming soon" actually depends on, since a few of us are interested in running this on our own infrastructure.

[ndisidore]

Howdy! Maintainer here: you can fully run everything locally today but there are a few gaps when it comes to "running in production".

I believe the primary work Kenton is looking to land is cloudflare/workerd#6780 , which allows you to run any workerd project (including but not limited to cloudflare-os) in more of a clustered/HA setup. I'm sure there are a few more gaps, but that is top of mind.

Stay tuned! This is absolutely something the whole team want to be fully open with.

[NightMustEnd]

I'm really looking forward to the official standalone workerd self-hosting support.

I've been testing Cloudflare OS on a small always-on Debian 13 home server.

pnpm run-local was too heavy for this machine due to the Wrangler/Vite/watch stack, but native workerd itself has been extremely lightweight in my tests — around 45 MiB RSS for a minimal worker.

I've also confirmed that ExternalServer over a Unix socket works well for connecting workerd to a local Authority Gateway without enabling unrestricted private-network fetches. I now have native workerd + the Gateway running under systemd with successful reboot recovery.

So I'm very interested in how the official self-hosting tooling will handle the multi-Worker configuration, persistence, bindings, and startup model.

I'd be very happy to test it on a small always-on home server as soon as it becomes available. Thanks for working on this!