dockge

A fancy, easy-to-use and reactive self-hosted docker compose.yaml stack-oriented manager

⭐ 23,071 stars on GitHub · 🍴 744 forks · 📜 License: mit · 💻 Language: TypeScript

What is dockge?

For teams that live in Docker Compose rather than Kubernetes, Dockge is a clean way to manage stacks without handing your setup over to a heavyweight control panel. Its differentiator is simple but important: your compose.yaml files stay as normal files on disk, so the UI complements the CLI instead of replacing it.

Main components

• Stack-oriented Docker Compose manager for creating, editing, starting, stopping, restarting, and deleting services.
• Interactive compose.yaml editor with a responsive web UI.
• Real-time pull, up, down, and terminal output so you can see exactly what Docker is doing.
• Built-in web terminal for hands-on troubleshooting without jumping between tools.
• Image update workflow for refreshing stack containers from the UI.
• Multi-agent support for managing Compose stacks across multiple Docker hosts from one interface.
• Converter for turning docker run ... commands into reusable compose.yaml definitions.
• File-based stack storage, keeping Compose projects accessible to normal docker compose commands and external editors.

Clear use cases

• Run a homelab dashboard for managing self-hosted apps like Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Gitea, Immich, and monitoring tools.
• Give a small operations team a safer web UI for common Compose actions without requiring everyone to SSH into the host.
• Manage multiple Docker hosts from one place while keeping each stack defined as plain Compose files.
• Convert ad-hoc docker run experiments into maintainable Compose stacks.
• Troubleshoot failed deployments with real-time logs and terminal access instead of waiting on a vague spinner.
• Standardize Compose stack management on Linux servers, Raspberry Pi boxes, or small edge nodes.

The biggest strength is respecting the Docker Compose workflow — Dockge does not try to hide your stack definitions in a database or proprietary abstraction. That makes it much easier to trust than many commercial or closed-source panels: you can still use Git, SSH, your editor, backups, and plain docker compose whenever you want. Compared with Portainer, Dockge feels narrower but sharper; it is focused on Compose stack management, and that focus is exactly why it works well.

It is not the right choice if you need full container platform governance, RBAC-heavy enterprise features, Swarm/Kubernetes management, or broad infrastructure inventory. But for self-hosters and small teams who mostly want a fast, understandable UI over Docker Compose, the trade-off is excellent.

Best for homelab admins, small-business sysadmins, and developers running multiple self-hosted Docker Compose stacks who want a polished UI without giving up file-based control.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ docker
• 🏷️ docker-compose
• 🏷️ docker-deployment
• 🏷️ docker-stack
• 🏷️ docker-stack-deploy
• 🏷️ docker-ui
• 🏷️ responsive
• 🏷️ self-hosted
• 🏷️ selfhosted
• 🏷️ single-page-app

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Quick install

The project supports Docker Compose:

git clone https://github.com/louislam/dockge.git
cd dockge
docker compose up -d

Check the README in the repo for required env variables.

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: louislam/dockge
• 🌐 Homepage: https://dockge.kuma.pet
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 05/05/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.