I have a home server with tech illiterate users (Tailscale/VPN won’t be a solution for them), and I’ve been setting up a little blog to keep them updated about content and status. I had an idea of setting up a server status page that displayed the running state of various docker containers so they could easily see if services are running or not.
The dashboards I’ve seen have been geared towards administrators, but I’m looking for something simple, with no control buttons, that is just for display. I was thinking that there might be a dashboard out there with the ability to export the displays as a webpage widget or something along those lines.
I have a VPS I can use just for the online display, so I’m not worried about the networking per se. Needs to run on Debian.
If you’re running it on a separate server you would have to expose the docker API to it, which you might not want to do. It might be easier to just run it on the same server and proxy it from the bps.
I haven’t researched this, but my gut tells me one should be able to connect the two servers via Wireguard (direct tunnel, tailscale, zerotier, what have you) and discretely access the docker api without making it publicly available.
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Homepage (https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage) works fairly well for that use case imho.
If you’re running it on a separate server you would have to expose the docker API to it, which you might not want to do. It might be easier to just run it on the same server and proxy it from the bps.
I haven’t researched this, but my gut tells me one should be able to connect the two servers via Wireguard (direct tunnel, tailscale, zerotier, what have you) and discretely access the docker api without making it publicly available.
Homepage is awesome
That’s what I was planning to do to configure it. Glad to hear that was the right plan.
And I’ll definitely check out homepage—thank you so much for your reply!
I use netdata badges to display the current status of services/HTTP checks to my users.
How about Uptime Kuma status pages? They’re separate from the admin page and you can add Docker containers as monitors.
Ooh, that’s pretty. Thanks for the suggestion!
I’m using Uptime Kuma myself can’t recommend it enough for simple use cases like this!