Dockge Enhanced — a feature-focused fork for advanced Docker management

[Aerya]

Hi everyone,

First of all, many thanks to Louis Lam and all Dockge contributors for creating such a clean and accessible Docker Compose manager.

Over the past few months, I have been working on Dockge Enhanced, a feature-focused fork of Dockge aimed at users who want to keep Dockge’s simple stack management experience while adding more advanced monitoring, backup, security and multi-server capabilities.

🔗 https://github.com/Aerya/Dockge-Enhanced

Rather than listing every individual change, the main additions are grouped into a few areas:

• Multi-instance management
  Instance naming and filtering, stack copy and migration between Dockge instances, scheduled cold replicas and manual failover.

• Backup and recovery
  Encrypted Restic backups to multiple destinations, Compose files, bind mounts and named volumes, selective restores, snapshot browsing and diffs, integrity checks and restore testing.

• Image management and security
  Image update monitoring, scheduled or automatic updates, rollback support, Trivy vulnerability scans, CVE exclusions and skipped image releases.

• Monitoring and reliability
  System, stack and per-container statistics, crash-loop detection, healthcheck auto-healing, enhanced logs and optional Kula integration.

• Docker resource management
  Management of images, volumes and unmanaged containers, scheduled pruning, bulk actions and safeguards around destructive operations.

• Stack and container operations
  Per-container start, stop, restart, update and recreate actions, including handling for stacks using VPN containers through network_mode: service:.

• Notifications and access
  Discord and Apprise notifications, trusted-proxy authentication, Turnstile support and an administration audit log.

The project remains based on Dockge, is licensed under MIT, and clearly credits the original project. It also checks upstream Dockge releases automatically so that upstream improvements can be reviewed and integrated.

My goal is not to replace Dockge, but to explore what a more operations-oriented edition of it could look like for homelabs, NAS systems and multi-server setups.

Screenshots, installation instructions and the complete feature catalogue are available in the repository.

Thanks again to the Dockge project for providing the foundation that made this possible.
A.

[Aerya]

Area	Dockge Enhanced adds
Multi-instance	Instance names, multi-server selection and color-coded grouping, transactional copy/migration, resumable jobs, and automatic cold replication with no repository setup
Stack management	Per-stack and per-container actions, Build + Recreate, scheduling, notes, manual Git, and safeguards for services sharing a VPN network
Backup & recovery	Multi-destination Restic, volumes, per-stack consistency, selective restore, snapshot tests and diffs
Automation & audit	REST API scoped by permissions and stacks, per-stack webhooks, Home Assistant examples, and centralized history with origin and duration
Docker resources	Images, volumes, unmanaged containers and networks, bulk actions, auto-prune, and safeguards for risky deletions
Images & security	Update monitoring, auto-update with rollback, Trivy scans, and CVE exceptions
Monitoring	System, stack, and container stats, crash loops, healthcheck auto-heal, enhanced logs, and optional Kula integration
Integrations	Optional PlugNPiN and per-service label assistant for Nginx Proxy Manager, Pi-hole, and AdGuard Home
Notifications & access	Discord, Apprise, 2FA, trusted proxy, Turnstile, and mobile clients