Heimdall

An Application dashboard and launcher — organize all your web apps and services in one place.

Port	80
Registry	ghcr.io/daemonless/heimdall
Source	https://github.com/linuxserver/Heimdall
Website	https://heimdall.site/

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
latest	Upstream Binary. Built from official release.	Most users. Matches Linux Docker behavior.

Prerequisites

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions.

Deployment

Podman Compose

services:
  heimdall:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/heimdall:latest"
    container_name: heimdall
    environment:
      - PUID=1000  # User ID for the application process
      - PGID=1000  # Group ID for the application process
      - TZ=UTC  # Timezone for the container
      - APP_URL=  # Full URL where Heimdall is accessed (e.g. http://heimdall.lan)
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/heimdall:/config"
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    restart: unless-stopped

AppJail Director

.env:

# .env

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=heimdall
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
TZ=UTC
APP_URL=

appjail-director.yml:

# appjail-director.yml

options:
  - virtualnet: ':<random> default'
  - nat:
services:
  heimdall:
    name: heimdall
    options:
      - container: 'boot args:--pull'
      - expose: '80:80 proto:tcp' \
    oci:
      user: root
      environment:
        - PUID: !ENV '${PUID}'
        - PGID: !ENV '${PGID}'
        - TZ: !ENV '${TZ}'
        - APP_URL: !ENV '${APP_URL}'
    volumes:
      - heimdall: /config
volumes:
  heimdall:
    device: '/path/to/containers/heimdall'

Makejail:

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/heimdall:${tag}

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Podman CLI

podman run -d --name heimdall \
  -p 80:80 \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -e APP_URL= \
  -v /path/to/containers/heimdall:/config \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/heimdall:latest

AppJail

appjail oci run -Pd \
  -o overwrite=force \
  -o container="args:--pull" \
  -o virtualnet=":<random> default" \
  -o nat \
  -o expose="80:80 proto:tcp" \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -e APP_URL= \
  -o fstab="/path/to/containers/heimdall /config <pseudofs>" \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/heimdall:latest heimdall

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Ansible

- name: Deploy heimdall
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: heimdall
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/heimdall:latest"
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    env:
      PUID: "1000"
      PGID: "1000"
      TZ: "UTC"
      APP_URL: ""
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/heimdall:/config"

Access at: http://localhost:80

Parameters

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
PUID	1000	User ID for the application process
PGID	1000	Group ID for the application process
TZ	UTC	Timezone for the container
APP_URL	``	Full URL where Heimdall is accessed (e.g. http://heimdall.lan)

Volumes

Path	Description
/config	Configuration directory (database, .env, storage)

Ports

Port	Protocol	Description
80	TCP	Web UI

Architectures: amd64 User: bsd (UID/GID via PUID/PGID, defaults to 1000:1000) Base: FreeBSD 15.1

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