A great service to run in your home lab environment is a home lab dashboard. A home lab dashboard allows you to organize and aggregate the services, applications, and other solutions you have running inside your home lab environment without having to save cumbersome browser bookmarks and other means. It provides a centralized portal to share across all the devices you have on the network for easy access to your services. Let's take a look at Dashy, a free an open source solution to create quick and easy, beautiful, and powerful home lab dashboards in just a few minutes.


Introduction - 0:00
What is Dashy? - 1:38
Features of Dashy - 2:23
Getting started deploying Dashy - 3:10
Overview of my Docker host - 3:28
Copying the command and configuring the YAML configuration file - 4:00
Pasting into the command line of the Ubuntu Docker host - 4:28
Verifying the Dashy container is running - 4:58
Browsing out to the URL of the Dashy Docker container - 5:22
Documentation links from the dashboard - 6:00
Reviewing the configuration options in Dashy - themes, layout, item size, etc - 6:18
Getting into configuration mode to add items to the dashboard - 6:50
Adding a new item to the new group - 7:45
Adding status checks, disabling SSL checks, max redirects, accepted HTTP codes, etc - 8:16
Save options and differences between local saves or saving to disk - 8:53
Pointing your Dashy Dashboard items to icons for services - 9:40
Discussing the repo for pulling image files - 10:04
Looking at the example Dashy home lab dashboard - 11:11
Discussing how to open the Dashy home lab dashboard in the browser - 11:25
Concluding thoughts around home lab dashboards - 11:52

If you prefer written form, read my full write up about Dashy home lab dashboard here and how to configure:

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/09/home-lab-dashboard-with-dashy/