irssi has 8,819,478 recorded pulls on Docker Hub.
It ranks #143 of 1,263 tracked Docker Hub listings by pulls.
PluginStats has 4 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 19, 2026.
About irssi
Quick reference
• Maintained by: Jessie and Tianon (of the Docker Community), with the appreciation of the Irssi Project • Where to get help: the Docker Community Slack, Server Fault, Unix & Linux, or Stack Overflow
Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links
• 1.4.5, 1.4, 1, latest, 1.4.5-trixie, 1.4-trixie, 1-trixie, trixie • 1.4.5-alpine, 1.4-alpine, 1-alpine, alpine, 1.4.5-alpine3.23, 1.4-alpine3.23, 1-alpine3.23, alpine3.23
Quick reference (cont.)
• Where to file issues: https://github.com/jessfraz/irssi/issues • Supported architectures: (more info) amd64, arm32v5, arm32v6, arm32v7, arm64v8, i386, ppc64le, riscv64, s390x • Published image artifact details: repo-info repo's repos/irssi/ directory (history) (image metadata, transfer size, etc) • Image updates: official-images repo's library/irssi label official-images repo's library/irssi file (history) • Source of this description: docs repo's irssi/ directory (history)
What is irssi?
Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins. Some people refer to it as 'the client of the future'.
irssi.org
How to use this image
Because it is unlikely any two irssi users have the same configuration preferences, this image does not include an irssi configuration. To configure irssi to your liking, please refer to upstream's excellent (and comprehensive) +documentation.
Be sure to also checkout the awesome scripts you can download to customize your irssi configuration.
Directly via bind mount
On a Linux system, build and launch a container named my-running-irssi like this:
We specify --log-driver=none to avoid storing useless interactive terminal data.
On a Mac OS X system, run the same image using:
You omit /etc/localtime on Mac OS X because boot2docker doesn't use this file.
Image Variants
The irssi images come in many flavors, each designed for a specific use case.
irssi:
This is the defacto image. If you are unsure about what your needs are, you probably want to use this one. It is designed to be used both as a throw away container (mount your source code and start the container to start your app), as well as the base to build other images off of.
Some of these tags may have names like trixie in them. These are the suite code names for releases of Debian and indicate which release the image is based on. If your image needs to install any additional packages beyond what comes with the image, you'll likely want to specify one of these explicitly to minimize breakage when there are new releases of Debian.
irssi:-alpine
This image is based on the popular Alpine Linux project, available in the alpine official image. Alpine Linux is much smaller than most distribution base images (~5MB), and thus leads to much slimmer images in general.
This variant is useful when final image size being as small as possible is your primary concern. The main caveat to note is that it does use musl libc instead of glibc and friends, so software will often run into issues depending on the depth of their libc requirements/assumptions. See this Hacker News comment thread for more discussion of the issues that might arise and some pro/con comparisons of using Alpine-based images.
To minimize image size, it's uncommon for additional related tools (such as git or bash) to be included in Alpine-based images. Using this image as a base, add the things you need in your own Dockerfile (see the alpine image description for examples of how to install packages if you are unfamiliar).
License
View license information for the software contained in this image.
As with all Docker images, these likely also contain other software which may be under other licenses (such as Bash, etc from the base distribution, along with any direct or indirect dependencies of the primary software being contained).
Some additional license information which was able to be auto-detected might be found in the repo-info repository's irssi/ directory.
As for any pre-built image usage, it is the image user's responsibility to ensure that any use of this image complies with any relevant licenses for all software contained within.
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Recent observations
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Data source
Cumulative pull counts and stars come from the public Docker Hub API. Pulls count image downloads (including automated CI pulls), not installs or users.
Listing: https://hub.docker.com/_/irssi. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 19, 2026. See the methodology.