Does Homepage need access to the Docker socket?
Only for container status and automatic discovery. Mount /var/run/docker.sock read-only and Homepage picks up containers and labels, or leave it out and list your services in services.yaml by hand.
Homepage: Start Page for Your Services
Homepage draws one start page for the services on your server: bookmarks, live Docker container status and widgets for more than 100 apps. Everything is declared in YAML files you keep in Git.
Compare with similar apps
How Homepage stacks up against other monitoring apps. Add or remove apps to change the comparison.
| Requirement | Homepage | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free |
| Web UI | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Architecture | x86 + ARM | x86 + ARM | x86 + ARM | x86 + ARM | x86 + ARM | x86 + ARM |
| Min hardware | Not stated | Not stated | 256 MB RAM · 250 MB | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| Containers | 1The app alone | 1The app alone | 1The app alone | 1The app alone | 1The app alone | 1The app alone |
| Database | none | none | none | SQLite | none | SQLite |
| Runtime | Node | Go | Node | PHP | Vue | PHP |
| Docker | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Linux package | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | – | – |
| Windows | – | Yes | – | – | – | – |
| macOS | – | Yes | – | – | – | – |
| PHP | – | – | – | – | – | Yes |
| Full comparison | This app | Glance vs Homepage | – | – | – | – |
Common questions
How do I secure Homepage on my network?
Put it behind a reverse proxy with TLS and authentication, or keep it on a VPN. Since version 2.0 it can also gate itself with a password or OIDC using the HOMEPAGE_AUTH variables, and HOMEPAGE_ALLOWED_HOSTS lists the hostnames it answers to.
Where does Homepage keep its settings?
In the /app/config folder: settings.yaml, services.yaml, bookmarks.yaml, widgets.yaml and docker.yaml. Mount that folder from the host and back it up, since the whole layout lives in those files.
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