In this blog/video we’ll look at How to Install DashMachine on Docker and OMV5.
DashMachine is a web application bookmark dashboard, with “fun features”.
The process of setting this up is easy and you can find all the code below with both an SSH script as well as a Docker compose file that you can use in Portainer.
DashMachine Docker Script
To install via a commandline interface, open Putty or your favorite SSH application and login as root.
Next, paste this in:
docker create \ --name=dashmachine \ -p 5000:5000 \ -v /srv/dev-disk-by-label-Files/Config/DashMachine:/dashmachine/dashmachine/user_data \ --restart unless-stopped \ rmountjoy/dashmachine:latest
Be sure to change the volume to be a configuration folder on your server.
Also, you might need to manually start the container if it fails to start on its own.
The original GitHub page is here: https://github.com/rmountjoy92/DashMachine
DashMachine Portainer Script
To install via Portainer, you’ll want to login to your Portainer dashboard and open the “Stacks” link.
Create a new Stack and paste this in:
---
version: "2"
services:
dashmachine:
image: rmountjoy/dashmachine:latest
container_name: dashmachine
volumes:
- /srv/dev-disk-by-label-Files/Config/DashMachine:/dashmachine/dashmachine/user_data
ports:
- 5000:5000
restart: unless-stopped
Be sure to change the volume to be a configuration folder on your server.
Also, you might need to manually start the container if it fails to start on its own.
Customizing the Dashboard
You’ll need to login with the following credentials:
URL: http://your-server-ip:5000
Username: admin
Password: admin
Next, hover over the left sidebar and click on the Settings gear.
Your Config.ini file will look like this:
[Settings] theme = light accent = orange background = None roles = admin,user,public_user home_access_groups = admin_only settings_access_groups = admin_only custom_app_title = DashMachine
The first things I changed were the theme and accent to “dark” and “blue” respectively:
[Settings] theme = dark accent = blue background = None roles = admin,user,public_user home_access_groups = admin_only settings_access_groups = admin_only custom_app_title = DashMachine
Because I’ve got several applications/containers on my server, I wanted to make them all accessible, so here’s an example of a couple of the app link configurations on my DashMachine Config.ini:
[Emby] prefix = http:// url = 192.168.1.19:8096/web icon = static/images/apps/emby.png sidebar_icon = static/images/apps/emby.png description = Emby Media Server open_in = new_tab [OMV5] prefix = http:// url = 192.168.1.19:81 icon = static/images/apps/openmediavault.png sidebar_icon = static/images/apps/openmediavault.png description = OpenMediaVault 5 open_in = new_tab [PiHole] prefix = http:// url = 192.168.1.225/admin icon = static/images/apps/pihole.png sidebar_icon = static/images/apps/pihole.png description = DNS Ad Blocker open_in = new_tab
There are several icons pre-installed in the application, so let’s take a look at that here:
You can add more icons to the folder by using something like Filezilla and navigating to the container and copying .png files over.
That’s it! Now you have a DashMachine docker container installed and configured on your server!
Here are some additional tutorials about OpenMediaVault 5 and Docker.
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