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Docker Management Tools

Web-based GUI tools for managing Docker containers, images, volumes, networks, and logs.

Dockhand

Section titled “Dockhand”

Dockhand is a free, self-hosted Docker management platform. Supports container management, Docker Compose stacks with Git integration, vulnerability scanning, OIDC/SSO, and multi-environment setups via the Hawser agent.

  • Free edition with full functionality (no bait-and-switch)
  • Visual editor for Docker Compose files
  • Built-in vulnerability scanning (Grype/Trivy)
  • Runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and Raspberry Pi

Portainer

Section titled “Portainer”

Portainer is a lightweight container management platform for Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, and ACI environments. Provides a graphical interface and extensive API.

  • Community Edition is free and open-source (Zlib license)
  • Business Edition adds RBAC and dedicated support
  • Deploys as a single container on Linux and Windows

Dozzle

Section titled “Dozzle”

Dozzle is a real-time log viewer for containers (MIT, written in Go). Unlike the management platforms above it focuses on logs: streaming, searching and filtering across containers and hosts, with live CPU, memory and network charts next to the output.

Terminal window
docker run -d -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  -v dozzle_data:/data -p 8080:8080 amir20/dozzle:latest
  • Structured log parsing with multi-line traces grouped into one entry
  • Works with Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes and Podman; remote hosts connect through TLS-secured agents
  • Container health checks, lifecycle events, plus shell and exec access
  • Alerts matched by expression, delivered through webhooks to Slack, Discord or ntfy
  • Exposes an MCP server so AI assistants can query logs
  • No database — a single container with a named volume for its data; logs stay inside your network
  • Simple or forward-proxy authentication