Glance

Overview

Glance is a self-hosted, fast-loading dashboard that pulls together bookmarks, RSS feeds, weather, service monitors, and more onto a single customizable page, configured entirely through one YAML file.

Project Details

Project Repository: https://github.com/glanceapp/glance
Container Image: https://hub.docker.com/r/glanceapp/glance
Documentation: https://github.com/glanceapp/glance/blob/main/docs/configuration.md
Reverse Proxy Domain: glance.example.com
Reverse Proxy Port: 8080

Getting Started

Copy the starter config into place, then edit it:

mkdir -p /data/glance/config
cp config/glance.yml /data/glance/config/glance.yml
nano /data/glance/config/glance.yml   # add your own pages, widgets, and links

Copy env defaults: cp sample.env .env
Start the stack: docker compose up -d
Open http://localhost:8080 (or your reverse proxy domain) in your browser

Environment Variable Notes

GLANCE_IMAGE – Docker image for Glance (default: glanceapp/glance:latest)
GLANCE_RESTART – Restart policy (default: unless-stopped)
GLANCE_PORT – Host port to publish (default: 8080)

VOL_PATH – Base path for config volume (default: /data)
TZ – Timezone (default: America/Vancouver)

Volume Notes

${VOL_PATH}/glance/config – glance.yml (required, see config/glance.yml starter) and any assets it references

Glance hot-reloads glance.yml on change, so config edits don't require a container restart.

Network Notes

Uses the external proxy network only — Glance is a single lightweight container with no backing database
Widgets that monitor other services (e.g. monitor) reach them by container name if those services share the proxy network, or by LAN address otherwise

Docker Run

docker run -d \
  --name=glance \
  -v /data/glance/config:/app/config \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  glanceapp/glance:latest

Additional Notes / Gotchas

All configuration lives in glance.yml — there is no setup wizard or admin UI
The starter config includes example clock, bookmarks, weather, monitor, rss, and server-stats widgets; remove or replace what you don't need
The monitor widget checks HTTP status only — it doesn't require the target service to expose any special metrics endpoint
See the widgets reference for the full list of available widget types

Dockhand Stack, Deploy from Git

Cookbooks Repository stackname: glance_dev Compose file path: glance_dev/compose.yaml Additional env file (optional): glance_dev/sample.env

Then "Load" glance_dev/sample.env into the Environmental variables in dockhand.

Ensure glance.yml exists at ${VOL_PATH}/glance/config/glance.yml before deploying.

Create the Stack.

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