Install Dockge in Your Proxmox LXC Container

Say goodbye to Portainer

1. What is Dockge ?

Dockge is a Portainer alternative.

1.1 This is what the Developer had to say

  1. I have been using Portainer for some time, but for the stack management, I am sometimes not satisfied with it.
    For example, sometimes when I try to deploy a stack, the loading icon keeps spinning for a few minutes without progress.
    And sometimes error messages are not clear.
  2. Try to develop with ES Module + TypeScript (Originally, I planned to use Deno or Bun.js, but they don’t have support for arm64, so I stepped back to Node.js)
  3. “Dockge” is a coinage word which is created by myself.
    I originally hoped it sounds like Dodge, but apparently many people called it Dockage, it is also acceptable.
    The naming idea came from Twitch emotes like sadge, bedge or wokege. They all end in -ge.

So lets pronounce it as “Docksh” giving it a Brazilian twist

2. Features

  1. Manage your compose.yaml files
  2. Create/Edit/Start/Stop/Restart/Delete
  3. Update Docker Images
  4. Interactive Editor for compose.yaml
  5. Interactive Web Terminal
  6. (1.4.0) Multiple agents support - You can manage multiple stacks from different Docker hosts in one single interface
  7. Convert docker run … commands into compose.yaml
  8. File based structure - Dockge won’t kidnap your compose files, they are stored on your drive as usual.
    You can interact with them using normal docker compose commands
  9. Reactive - Everything is just responsive. Progress (Pull/Up/Down) and terminal output are in real-time
  10. Easy-to-use & fancy UI - If you love Uptime Kuma’s UI/UX, you will love this one too

3. Installing Dockge

Instructions can be found here :
https://github.com/louislam/dockge#basic
https://dockge.kuma.pet/

We will install Dockge in a Proxmox LXC Container where Docker has been previously installed

Run these commands:

# Connect to the LXC container (or open its terminal in the browser)
ssh root@10.154.2.87

# we need to be running as root
sudo su -

# Create directories that store your stacks and stores Dockge's stack
mkdir -p /opt/stacks /opt/dockge

cd /opt/dockge


# Download the compose.yaml
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/louislam/dockge/master/compose.yaml --output compose.yaml

# should you wish to customize this docker compose file
nano compose.yaml

# Start the server
docker compose up -d

# If you are using docker-compose V1 or Podman
# docker-compose up -d

4. Admin and usage

Open Dockge in the browser:
http://10.154.2.87:5001/

This is demonstrated in our Youtube video : \

5. Add the /opt/stacks folder to Git visa vie Gitea

You want to do this every time you change or add a new Docker Container to the Stack to keep your stask under version control

Run these commands :(After creating a Github Repository)

cd /opt/stacks

# Create local Git Repository
git init

# Create a README file (And put an initial comment inside this file)
nano README.md

ls -la

# Get Local Git Repository status
git status

# Add all files to Local Git Repository
git add .

# Do Initial Git commit
git commit -m "first commit"

# Add Github Repository origin (xxxxxxx and yyyyyyy will be provided by Github)
git remote add origin https://github.com/xxxxxxx/yyyyyyyyy.git

# Add Github user email address
git config --global user.email "xyxyxyxyxyx@gmail.com"

# Add Github user name 
git config --global user.name "xxxxxxxx"

# Set upstream origin and push to Github
git push --set-upstream origin master

You can access our stacks here :
https://github.com/nic0michael/MyDockerStacks

5. Please give them a Star for what wonderful software they have created

Bibliography

https://github.com/louislam/dockge
https://github.com/louislam/dockge#basic
https://dockge.kuma.pet/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWAlOQeNpgU&t=48s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEklvsr7q54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E805XcbTzgY