Dockge

Dockge is a web UI for Docker Compose stacks: create, edit, start, stop and update them from a browser instead of the terminal. It comes from the developer behind Uptime Kuma, and the UI shows it: fast, clean, obvious. Your compose files stay as normal files on disk, it converts docker run commands into compose files, and it can manage stacks across several Docker hosts from one screen. MIT, free.

Setup is a folder, one downloaded compose file, and docker compose up -d. Existing stacks have to move into its stacks directory (/opt/stacks by default). Like Portainer, it mounts the Docker socket, which is root-level access to the host, so keep it off the public internet.

There's no paid tier. Homelab and solo: still pleasant for a handful of stacks. Small teams: fine for a shared dev box, with the caveat below. Anything bigger: Portainer (portainer/portainer), whose free Community Edition is now officially for homelabs only and whose Business Edition is free for 3 nodes, then $1,045/yr for 5.

The catch: the project has stalled. The last stable release was 1.5.0 in March 2025, newer features only ship in nightly builds, and users in the repo are openly asking whether it's dead. Several security reports sit in the tracker with no visible response. It's also compose-only: no Swarm, no Kubernetes, no network management. Fine for a homelab. For anything you care about, pick something maintained.