Virtualmin Docker - A full Docker management module

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on several new third-party modules for virtualmin, this one i’m sharing today called Virtualmin Docker and wanted to share it with the open source community.

The main reason I built this instead of just using a standalone UI like Portainer is that I wanted something that lives natively inside the Virtualmin ecosystem. I also wanted it to be absolutely bulletproof regarding security. A panel running as root shouldn’t be pasting user input into a shell, so I built this from the ground up to be injection-proof (every Docker command uses constant flags and individually escaped values).

What makes it special for Virtualmin users:
It actually reads your Virtualmin domain definitions. If you have a virtual server with proxy settings pointing to a local port (e.g., localhost:3000), this module matches that port to the active container and shows the proxied domain right in the container list.

Main Features:

  • Full Lifecycle Management: Start, stop, restart, kill, pause, and bulk actions for containers.
  • Live Dashboard: Home-screen widget for Webmin, showing running/stopped counts and disk usage.
  • Compose & Images: Manage Compose projects (v2), build from inline Dockerfiles, pull/push, and search Docker Hub.
  • Security & Scanning: Integration with Docker Scout or Trivy for image vulnerability scanning.
  • Backups: Export container filesystems, save images to host tars, and backup/restore local volumes.
  • Granular ACL: Grant or deny specific capabilities (like view, manage, exec, prune) per Webmin user.
  • Rootless Docker: Fully supported via Docker contexts.

Requirements:

  • A host running Webmin or Virtualmin (tested on Webmin 2.621 / Virtualmin 8.0.0 GPL only)
  • The Docker engine + CLI (docker)
  • Perl JSON::PP (ships with Perl 5.14+)

How to Install:
You can review the source code and download the latest release from my GitHub here:
https://github.com/MrZaKaRiA/Virtualmin-Docker

  1. Download the docker.wbm.gz file from the Releases page.
  2. Log into your panel and go to Webmin > Webmin Configuration > Webmin Modules.
  3. Select “From uploaded file”, upload the package, and hit Install.
  4. You’ll find it under Servers > Docker.

The project is completely open-source (GPLv2). If you decide to spin it up on your servers, I would love to hear your feedback. Feel free to open an issue on GitHub if you run into any bugs or have feature requests!

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This is a comprehensive module. I wish I could give you more feed but Docker is not on my radar at the minute.

This module is a good example of why there should be a proper catalogue of Webmin/Virtualmin modules.

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Get on and build one then and add it to the website github, along with a link to it in the menuing system

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The infrastructure is closed. Cannot be me that does it. Security, branding and a few other things.

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I’m sure the git is visible i.e not hidden, which would imply pr’s from 3rd parties could be made

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cool project! Is it possible to update containers? In Portainer I click recreate and then check re-pull image this will keep all container settings the same but update to latest.

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FYI it appears to be open and is inviting contributions

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@MrZaKaRiA See:

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