Overview

Overview

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What is UndockerUI?

UndockerUI is a web user interface for Docker on Unraid, aimed at improving on Unraid’s built-in Docker UI for everyday container work. It is distributed as an emhttp plugin: a PHP shell page embeds a React single-page application (SPA) that talks to Unraid’s GraphQL API for almost all Docker operations, plus a small PHP script for Compose file read/write and docker compose up -d.

It is aimed at users who want:

• A dense container table (name, status, image, IP, ports, uptime, created, autostart, update hints).
• Quick actions (start/stop/restart/pause, delete, logs, update flow) without leaving the page.
• Template-aware behavior: Web UI links, Unraid template icons, Edit in the stock template editor, and Shell via Unraid’s terminal integration when available.
• A Compose workspace for YAML under safe host paths (/mnt/user, /mnt/cache, /boot/config, /mnt/diskN).

What UndockerUI is not

• Not a replacement for Unraid’s entire Docker stack — it does not reimplement CA, template repositories, or Unraid’s update scripts; it calls the same GraphQL mutations the stock UI relies on.
• Not a separate authentication system — access is whatever your Unraid web session allows.
• Not a hosted SaaS — everything runs on your NAS in the browser you already use for Unraid.

Compared to Unraid’s built-in Docker UI

UndockerUI complements and largely supersedes the stock Docker containers page for the workflows below—you can still fall back to the built-in page anytime:

• Edit opens the same style of URL as the stock flow (/Docker/UpdateContainer?xmlTemplate=edit:…).
• Shell uses window.top.openTerminal when the Unraid shell integration is present.
• Update and logs use dedicated windows so long operations do not block the main table.

You can keep using the stock Docker page for workflows UndockerUI does not cover yet.

Next steps

• Requirements
• Installation