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Dockge Setup

Create temporary firewall rule

Connecting to OPNsense-WebUI

Open and Login to opnsense.yourdomain.com

Create NAT-Rule

  • Go to Firewall > NAT > Port Forward
  • Add Rule by clicking the plus-button
  • Enter the following values
  • Hit ‘safe’ and then ‘apply’

NATrule-Settings

Interface - TAILSCALE
Destination / Invert - false
Destination - TAILSCALE_ADDRESS
Destination port from - (other) 5001
Destination port to - (other) 5001
Redirect Target IP - Dockge_202-Alias (IP: 10.2.2.2)
Redirect Target Port - (other) 5001
Description - TEMP!!!

Login into Web-WebUI

After creating your subdomain, you can now connect to the web interface.

  • Open http://tailscale_opnsense_ip:5001

Create Admin-Account

After the page has loaded, you can create an admin account.

To do this, enter your username, password and repeat your password.
Then click on the create button.

Congratulations, the main settings are done. But now we need to make some more settings

My assignment of the account

  • Username: I use root, but you can use the first letter of first name, then full surname separated by a period like j.doe
  • Password: Individual, 32-digit password with special characters like ZPzEjqwY^$93Qrgf2oka&VvFWSja!WmU

Dockge Variable awarding

  • Go to dockge in the sidebar

  • Edit this Container

  • Scroll down to ‘.env-Area’

  • Copy the variable name into it and give it a value,
    as here: DOCKGE_EXTERNAL_IP= https://dockge.yourdomain.com

  • Click Save

Connect Node-1 Dockge as Agent

Now we are ready to connect this Dockge to our Dockge from Dockersoft. To do this, we take the following steps.

Delete temporary firewall rule

  • Go to Firewall > NAT > Port Forward
  • Delete the TEMP-Rule by clicking the dash-button
  • Hit ‘apply’

Create NAT-Rule

  • Go to Firewall > NAT > Port Forward
  • Add Rule by clicking the plus-button
  • Enter the following values
  • Hit ‘safe’ and then ‘apply’

Interface - 103_dockge
Destination / Invert - false
Destination - Dockge_202-Alias (IP: 10.2.2.2)
Destination port from - (other) 5001
Destination port to - (other) 5001
Redirect Target IP - Dockge_202-Alias (IP: 10.2.2.2)
Redirect Target Port - (other) 5001
Description - Clear this!
Filter rule association - none

  • Open and Login to dockge.yourdomain.com
  • Click Add Agent-Button
  • Enter the following values
  • Hit connect-button

Dockge URL - http://10.2.2.2:5001 (Your Node1-Dockge-IP with Port 5001)
Username - your username from Node1-Dockge
Password - your password from Node1-Dockge