Best Self-hosted Container Management (Docker & Stacks) tools in 2026

A ACL-based proxy that sits in front of the Docker daemon to block unsafe API endpoints while allowing authorized operations.

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Docker

Dockcheck is a Bash CLI that checks for Docker image updates and can perform selective or unattended updates with notifications, image backups, and optional pruning.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+2

Websoft9 is a web-based Linux panel and lightweight PaaS for deploying, running, and operating hundreds of open-source applications on your own server.

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Cloudron+19

Kite is a modern Kubernetes dashboard for multi-cluster management, resource operations, and Prometheus-powered monitoring with logs, terminal access, and live YAML editi...

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+4

Centralized SSH gateway to remotely manage Linux servers, containers and IoT devices via web or native SSH; offers key auth, firewall rules, audit logging and session rec...

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Teleport+14

Pelican Panel is an open-source web control panel for managing game servers, offering Docker-based isolation, deployment workflows, and real-time resource monitoring.

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Pterodactyl Panel (Cloud)

Automates Reverse Proxy-over-VPN (RPoVPN) using WireGuard, Caddy and NGINX to expose Docker Compose services to the public Internet with automated TLS.

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Cloudflare Tunnel+3

Self-hosted Docker dashboard to open container web UIs, view logs, monitor ports, manage multiple hosts, and check or apply image updates with Traefik label detection.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+3

Open-source Moonlight streaming server that runs in Docker to share a single host among multiple remote clients.

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Shadow PC+9

Oxker is a Rust-based TUI for monitoring and managing Docker containers, including logs viewing, filtering, sorting, and common container actions.

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Docker+2

Open-source, self-hosted deployment platform that turns any VPS into a hosting machine with a browser-based terminal, file manager, and one-click deployments.

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Railway+15

Self-hosted infrastructure dashboard to inventory servers, organize app quick links, and track availability with built-in uptime history and notifications.

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UptimeRobot+16

Cup is a lightweight Rust tool with a CLI and web UI to check Docker container image updates across registries, designed to avoid exhausting registry rate limits.

ZaneOps is a self-hosted open-source PaaS to deploy and manage web apps, static sites, databases, and background workers with Git-based workflows and built-in HTTPS.

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Render+15

Self-hosted web app to monitor Docker images and automate container updates across one or multiple hosts, with scheduling, per-container policies, and notifications.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+8

Doco-CD is a lightweight GitOps continuous deployment tool that deploys and updates Docker Compose projects and Docker Swarm stacks via webhooks or polling.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+2

DweebUI is a lightweight Web UI for managing containers with a live-updating metrics dashboard, Docker Compose support, and multi-user permissions.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+4

Self-hosted, UI-focused tool to manage servers over SSH with Ansible playbooks, Docker container visibility, automations, and Prometheus-backed metrics.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+10

Open-source web app to create, edit, visualize, and share Docker Compose files with an interactive diagram-based GUI and import/export support.

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Docker+2

Open-source web UI to generate, assign, and organize port numbers across multiple hosts.

Dokemon is a Docker container management web UI that lets you manage multiple Docker hosts, deploy Compose projects, and administer containers, images, volumes, and netwo...

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+12

Self-hosted monitoring tool for uptime, TCP/HTTP checks, Docker monitoring, multi-user dashboards, incident management, SSO and alerting integrations.

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UptimeRobot+16

Deployrr automates homelab setup and app deployment using Docker and Docker Compose, with pre-configured stacks, Traefik reverse proxy options, and security integrations.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+19

Self-hosted Ruby on Rails web interface to browse and manage Docker Registry (HTTP API v2) repositories, tags, and manifests, with optional tag deletion.

Self-hosted web hosting control panel built around Docker containers, providing isolated per-user environments, resource limits, and integrated DNS, SSL, and management t...

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cPanel+19

Self-hosted Docker Compose manager that keeps you in control of your Compose files, letting you browse and operate stacks while maintaining direct access to YAML.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+7

A web app to discover, monitor and update Docker Compose stacks; frontend in Next.js and backend in FastAPI.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+2

Web UI to manage Traefik routers, middleware, services and DNS entries, with an optional agent for container label syncing and DNS automation.

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Traefik Cloud+3

Lightweight Flask web UI to schedule, preview and run Docker prune operations across single or multiple hosts, with reporting and notifications.

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Docker+1

Lightweight self-hosted PaaS that deploys Docker Compose projects via a web dashboard, automating stack deployment and exposing services on friendly URLs.

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Coolify Cloud+6