Glance and Dokploy

Glance is an open source tool that provides a dashboard that brings together multiple sources of information in one place.

Setting up Glance on Dokploy

Glance is dockerized, but requires a bit of setup to get it running. The main thing is a glance.yml configuration file that contains all the information for the dashboard structure.

The short answer is to use Github. This makes it easy to have the docker-compose.yml file in the same repository as the glance.yml file. It also then makes it easy to edit the glance.yml file and have it automatically update the dashboard.

Updating the glance.yml file

Now that you have the glance.yml file in the repository, you can edit it and makes changes to the dashboard (and then commit and push the changes to Github).

However, in order for these to take effect, you need to add --force-recreate to the Run Command section in Advanced Settings. This ensures that the glance.yml that is present in Github is used during the deployment rather than make use of the existing one that was previously created in the container.