DockStation AlternativesDocker Managers and other similar apps like DockStation

DockStation is described as 'Developer-centric application for managing projects based on Docker. Instead of lots of CLI commands you can monitor, configure, and manage services and containers while using just a GUI' and is a Docker Manager in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to DockStation for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Docker, Self-Hosted, Mac and Windows apps. The best DockStation alternative is Portainer. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Portainer or Arcane - Docker Management UI. Other great apps like DockStation are Dockge, CapRover, Rancher and Lazydocker.

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  1. Portainer icon

    Portainer

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    Portainer Community Edition is a lightweight service delivery platform for containerized applications that can be used to manage Docker, Swarm, and Kubernetes environments. It is designed to be as simple to deploy as it is to use.

    27 Portainer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Self-Hosted
    • Kubernetes
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    • Portainer is the most popular Windows, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to DockStation.

    • Portainer is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to DockStation.

    • Portainer is Free Personal and Open SourceDockStation is Free Personal and Proprietary
    • Portainer is LightweightDockStation is not according to our users
  2. Arcane - Docker Management UI icon

    Arcane - Docker Management UI

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    Arcane is a modern, web-based interface for managing your Docker environment, built with SvelteKit. It offers a clean, intuitive overview and powerful management tools for your containers, images, volumes, and networks—all in one place.

    21 Arcane - Docker Management UI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  4. Cockpit Project icon

    Cockpit Project

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    Makes it easy to administer Linux servers via a web browser. It allows you to easily perform simple tasks like storage administration, inspecting journals, starting & stopping services, monitoring & administering several servers at once.

    32 Cockpit Project alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  5. Dockge icon

    Dockge

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    Dockge could be considered a Portainer replacement if you're only managing your container with docker-compose. However, for managing docker networks and single containers, Portainer might still be necessary. You can install both Dockge and Portainer.

    19 Dockge alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  6. CapRover icon

    CapRover

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    CapRover is an extremely easy to use app/database deployment & web server manager, PaaS, for your NodeJS, Python, PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, WordPress (and etc...) applications!

    48 CapRover alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  7. Rancher icon

    Rancher

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    Rancher is an open source container management platform built for organizations that deploy containers in production. Rancher makes it easy to run Kubernetes everywhere, meet IT requirements, and empower DevOps teams.

    34 Rancher alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Lazydocker icon

    Lazydocker

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    Memorising docker commands is hard. Memorising aliases is slightly less hard. Keeping track of your containers across multiple terminal windows is near impossible. What if you had all the information you needed in one terminal window with every common command living one keypress...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
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    • Lazydocker is the most popular Mac alternative to DockStation.

    • Lazydocker is Free and Open SourceDockStation is Free Personal and Proprietary
  10. Rancher Desktop icon

    Rancher Desktop

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    Rancher Desktop is an open-source desktop application for Mac, Windows and Linux. It provides Kubernetes and container management. You can choose the version of Kubernetes you want to run. You can build, push, pull, and run container images.

    43 Rancher Desktop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. GOCKER icon

    GOCKER

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    GOCKER is a text user interface on Docker. Its purpose is to add a GUI/TUI to local docker instances, it is largely inspired by K9S.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
    • Docker
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  12. cruise

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    Cruise is a powerful, intuitive, and fully-featured TUI (Terminal User Interface) for interacting with Docker. Built with Go and Bubbletea, it offers a visually rich, keyboard-first experience for managing containers, images, volumes, networks, logs and more — all from your terminal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Docker
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
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  13. Yacht icon

    Yacht

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    A web interface for managing docker containers with an emphasis on templating to provide 1 click deployments. Yacht is a flask based container management UI with a focus on templates and 1-click deployments.

    19 Yacht alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  14. sen

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    sen is a terminal user interface for containers:

    it can interactively manage your containers and images: start, stop, restart, kill, delete,... there is a "dashboard" view for containers and images you are able to inspect containers and images sen can fetch logs of con.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Docker
    • Python
    • Linux
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