---
title: Actual Budget
description: Envelope budgeting service for personal finance
published: true
date: 2026-04-12T00:00:00.000Z
tags: pncharris, finance, actualbudget
editor: markdown
dateCreated: 2026-04-12T00:00:00.000Z
---

# Actual Budget

Envelope budgeting service running on the Netgrimoire swarm. Accessible at `budget.netgrimoire.com`.

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## Architecture

| Service | Image | Port | Host |
|---------|-------|------|------|
| actual | `actualbudget/actual-server:latest` | 5006 | znas / Swarm |

**Network:** `netgrimoire` overlay
**Homepage group:** Finance
**Volume:** `/DockerVol/actual`

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## Environment Variables

```bash
ACTUAL_UPLOAD_FILE_SYNC_SIZE_LIMIT_MB=20
ACTUAL_UPLOAD_SYNC_ENCRYPTED_FILE_SYNC_SIZE_LIMIT_MB=50
ACTUAL_UPLOAD_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT_MB=20
```

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## Deploy

```bash
cd services/swarm/stack/actualbudget
set -a && source .env && set +a
docker stack config --compose-file actualbudget-stack.yml > resolved.yml
docker stack deploy --compose-file resolved.yml actualbudget
rm resolved.yml
```

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## Backup

Critical data: `/DockerVol/actual` — included in Kopia backup schedule.