Dockge

Dockge gives you a clean web UI for managing Docker Compose stacks: create, edit, start, stop, and monitor containers without touching the terminal. From the same developer who built Uptime Kuma, and it shows. The UI is clean, fast, and does exactly what you expect. TypeScript, MIT. Growing quickly. The design philosophy: one compose file per stack, edit them visually or in the built-in YAML editor, see real-time container logs, and manage everything through a browser. It converts `docker run` commands into compose files automatically.

Fully free. No paid tier, no cloud version, no premium features behind a wall. Self-hosted only. Installation is a single docker-compose up. It manages your OTHER compose stacks, so it sits alongside your containers, not inside them. The UI shows stack status, lets you pull updates, and handles basic container lifecycle.

Solo developers and homelab users: this is the sweet spot. Managing 5-20 compose stacks through Dockge is pleasant. Small teams: works great for shared dev or staging environments. Medium to large: you probably need Portainer, Rancher, or Kubernetes at that scale.

The catch: Dockge is compose-only. No Docker Swarm, no Kubernetes, no standalone container management. It doesn't do networking configuration, registry management, or advanced orchestration. It's a compose stack manager and nothing more, which is exactly why it's good at what it does.