# Running Homer Application Dashboard in Docker on Linux

## What is Homer?

> A dead simple static HOMepage for your servER to keep your services on hand, from a simple yaml configuration file. -https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer

## Installing Docker

1. Log into the Linux based device
2. Run the following commands in the terminal
   # install prerequisites
   sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common gnupg-agent -y
   # add docker gpg key
   curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/$(awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release)/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
   # add docker software repository
   sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)] https://download.docker.com/linux/$(awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release) $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
   # install docker
   sudo apt install docker-ce docker-compose containerd.io -y
   # enable and start docker service
   sudo systemctl enable docker && sudo systemctl start docker
   # add the current user to the docker group
   sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
   # reauthenticate for the new group membership to take effect
   su - $USER

## Running Homer

1. Now that Docker is installed, run the following commands to setup the Homer Docker container and run it
   # create working directories
   mkdir /home/$USER/docker/homer -p
   # set owner of working directories
   sudo chown "$USER":"$USER" /home/"$USER"/docker -R
   # run the homer docker container
   docker run -d --name homer -p 8080:8080 -v /home/$USER/docker/homer:/www/assets --restart=unless-stopped b4bz/homer:latest
2. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8080
3. Welcome to Homer
4. To make changes to the dashboard, edit the config.yml file with the following command
   # edit homer config.yml
   sudo nano ~/docker/homer/config.yml
5. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes
6. Back in the web browser, refresh the page to view the changes

Documentation: https://hub.docker.com/r/b4bz/homer