Running Heimdall Application Dashboard Using Docker

Installing Docker

1. Log into the Linux Docker host and run the following commands in a terminal window
   # update software respositories
   sudo apt update
   # install available software updates
   sudo apt upgrade -y
   # install prerequisites
   sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg2 software-properties-common -y
   # add docker gpg key
   curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
   # add docker apt repository
   sudo apt-add-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian buster stable"
   # update software respositories again
   sudo apt update
   # install docker
   sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io -y
   # 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 Heimdall Application Dashboard

1. Continue with the following commands in a terminal window
   # list current uid and gid, note these for later
   id $user
   # make a heimdall directory to mount in the container
   mkdir ~/heimdall
   # run the heimdall docker image
   # replace PUID, GUID with the output of the id $user command above
   docker run \
   --name=heimdall \
   -e PUID=1001 \
   -e PGID=1001 \
   -e TZ=america/new_york \
   -p 8006:80 \
   -v ~/heimdall:/config \
   --restart unless-stopped \
   linuxserver/heimdall
2. Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8006
3. Open a file manager and navigate to ~/heimdall to see the files the container has created

Source: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/heimdall/