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Docker Manager

First steps

Sign in for the first time

Section titled “Sign in for the first time”

The first user is called admin. Its temporary password is printed in the container’s log on first start:

Terminal window
docker logs docker-manager

Look for the lines that say INITIAL ADMIN ACCOUNT CREATED:

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INITIAL ADMIN ACCOUNT CREATED
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Username: admin
Temporary Password: ...
  1. Open Docker Manager in your browser (port 8080 unless you changed it).
  2. Enter admin and the temporary password, and choose Sign in.
  3. On Choose your password, enter the temporary password again, then your own password twice (at least 8 characters; a passphrase of a few words is easy to remember and hard to guess).
  4. If your account has no address that can receive mail, which is the case for admin (it starts as admin@localhost), you can enter Your email here too. Alerts, like a failed backup, go to it.
  5. Choose Set password and continue.

The sign-in page, with a painting of a harbour beside the username and password fields.

Find your way around

Section titled “Find your way around”

The sidebar groups everything into five areas:

Group Pages
Run Overview, Containers, Stacks, Templates, Databases
Resources Images, Volumes, Networks, Clean up
Deploy Git, Pipelines, Rollouts, Ingress, DNS, History
Watch Health, Observability, Security, Activity
Setup Hosts, Registries, Image rules, Users, Settings, Configuration

Some pages are only shown to administrators: Databases, Clean up, DNS, Observability, Security, Activity, Users and Configuration.

At the bottom of the sidebar you’ll find the selected Docker host, a light and dark mode switch, your account, and the version of Docker Manager you’re running.

The overview

Section titled “The overview”

Overview shows the selected host at a glance: its Docker version, operating system, CPUs and memory; how many containers, stacks, images, volumes and networks it has; live CPU and memory use (updated every 5 seconds) with the busiest containers; and the most recently created containers. If containers are failing their health checks, a Needs attention notice links to Health.

The overview of a host, with counts, live resource use and recently created containers.

Switching hosts

Section titled “Switching hosts”

Docker Manager can look after several Docker servers. Most pages show the host selected at the bottom of the sidebar; pick another one there to switch. Hosts explains how to add remote servers.

Your account

Section titled “Your account”

Choose your name at the bottom of the sidebar to open Your account:

  • Password: change your password. Your other sessions are signed out when you do.
  • Sessions: Sign out everywhere signs you out on every browser and device, including this one. Use it if you signed in somewhere you don’t trust.

What to do next

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