How to Deploy Apps Visually with Dockge – A Docker Compose GUI Guide

Overview

Dockge is a web‑based Docker Compose management UI that supports creating, editing, starting, stopping, restarting and deleting services defined in compose.yaml. It includes an interactive compose editor, a built‑in web terminal, automatic conversion of docker run commands to compose files, and real‑time log output.

Installation

Run Dockge as a Docker container. Example:

docker pull louislam/dockge:1

docker run -p 5001:5001 --name dockge \
  -e "DOCKGE_STACKS_DIR=/opt/stacks" \
  -e "DOCKGE_ENABLE_CONSOLE=true" \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  -v /mydata/dockge/data:/app/data \
  -v /mydata/dockge/stacks:/opt/stacks \
  -d louislam/dockge:1

After the container starts, open http://<em>host</em>:5001 in a browser and create an admin account.

Example: Deploy Spring Boot + MySQL

The following compose.yaml defines a MySQL 5.7 service and a Spring Boot service ( mall-tiny-docker) with ports, volumes and environment variables:

version: '3'
services:
  db:
    image: mysql:5.7
    container_name: mysql2
    ports:
      - 3306:3306
    volumes:
      - /mydata/mysql2/log:/var/log/mysql
      - /mydata/mysql2/data:/var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root

  mall-tiny-docker:
    image: mall-tiny/mall-tiny-docker:1.0-SNAPSHOT
    container_name: mall-tiny-docker
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime
      - /mydata/app/mall-tiny-docker/logs:/var/logs

In Dockge’s UI click the +Compose button, paste the file, give the stack a name and press Deploy. Dockge creates and starts both containers.

Post‑deployment actions:

View real‑time logs.

Restart, stop or delete containers with a single click.

Open an interactive Bash session inside a container via the Bash button.

Use the built‑in web terminal ( Terminal button) to run host commands.

The Spring Boot service exposes Swagger UI at http://<em>host</em>:8080/swagger-ui/, allowing verification of database connectivity.

Project Repository

https://github.com/louislam/dockge