Setting up Dockge

Dockge is a modern, responsive, self-hosted manager for docker-compose.yml stacks, developed by the creator of Uptime Kuma. It focuses strictly on compose stacks and provides an elegant, real-time web editor for your yaml files.

Why Use Dockge?

• Real-Time Editor: Edit your docker-compose.yml files inside the browser with built-in auto-completion and validation.
• Interactive Stack Controls: Start, stop, restart, update, and monitor terminal outputs for compose stacks in real-time.
• Convert run commands to compose: Paste a standard docker run command, and Dockge will automatically convert it into a Docker Compose stack.
• File Structure Friendly: Keeps your compose stacks in standard directories, so you can still use terminal commands like docker compose up directly if needed.

Deploying Dockge with Docker Compose

Below is the configuration to deploy Dockge using Docker Compose.

Docker Compose Setup

version: "3.8"
services:
  dockge:
    image: louislam/dockge:1
    container_name: dockge
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 5001:5001
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - ./data:/app/data
      # Stacks directory (where your compose files will be stored)
      - /opt/stacks:/opt/stacks
    environment:
      - DOCKGE_STACKS_DIR=/opt/stacks

Deploying the Stack

Run the following command to start Dockge:

docker compose up -d

Open your browser and navigate to http://<your-server-ip>:5001 to set up your administrator credentials.

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