Run Dashy Application Dashboard in Docker 🌱

What is Dashy?

[Dashy is] a self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more! -https://github.com/Lissy93/dashy

Installing Docker

  1. Log into the Linux Docker host and run the following commands in a terminal window
    # install prerequisites
    sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common gnupg-agent -y
    # add docker gpg key
    curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/$(awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release)/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
    # add docker software repository
    sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)] https://download.docker.com/linux/$(awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release) $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
    # install docker
    sudo apt install docker-ce docker-compose containerd.io -y
    # enable and start docker service
    sudo systemctl enable docker && sudo systemctl start docker
    # add the current user to the docker group
    sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
    # reauthenticate for the new group membership to take effect
    su - $USER

Running Dashy

  1. Continue with the following commands in a terminal window
    # create working directories
    mkdir ~/docker/dashy -p
    # download default conf.yml
    wget -O ~/docker/dashy/conf.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lissy93/dashy/refs/heads/master/user-data/conf.yml
    # set owner of working directories
    sudo chown "$USER":"$USER" ~/docker -R
    # allow the container to write to working directories
    sudo chmod a+rwx -R ~/docker/dashy
    # run the dashy docker image
    docker run -d --name dashy -p 8080:8080 -v ~/docker/dashy:/app/user-data --restart=unless-stopped lissy93/dashy:latest
  2. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8080
  3. Welcome to Dashy

Source: https://github.com/Lissy93/dashy?tab=readme-ov-file#getting-started-