After updating to ZimaOS 1.70, my CLI-created Docker containers no longer show up on the home screen

Operating System ZimaOS
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Hi everyone,

After my ZimaBlade auto-updated to ZimaOS 1.70, I noticed that most of my containers disappeared from the home screen. To be clear: the containers are still running fine — docker ps shows all of them, and the websites/apps they serve are working. They’re just no longer displayed as icons on the ZimaOS home.

It looks like only the containers I installed through the App Store (or imported via the UI) are shown now. All the ones I launched myself from the terminal with docker compose or docker run — which is most of mine — are no longer listed, even though they worked and showed up before the update.

I checked and the ones that appear on the home match what’s under:
/DATA/.casaos/apps/

So it seems like 1.70 changed the home to only show apps that ZimaOS created itself, and dropped the auto-discovery of external containers that older versions did.

My questions:

  • Is anyone else seeing this after updating to 1.70?
  • Is this an intended change, or a bug?
  • Is there a way to make the home show CLI-created containers again, or to import existing running containers into the home without recreating them from scratch?

I have a fair number of containers managed from the CLI, so recreating them one by one through the UI isn’t ideal. Any advice appreciated — thanks!

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@giuallegretto Yes, there have been some changes to the default display content on the dashboard, mainly concerning containers and container groups that are not managed by ZimaOS:

  • Containers started directly using docker run will not appear on the dashboard by default; they will currently be displayed in My Apps. You can add them to the dashboard from My Apps.
  • Container groups started directly using docker compose up will not appear on the dashboard. This is known behavior, and it is expected that there will be some optimizations for this in the future.

This is currently designed this way intentionally. For temporary solutions, please refer to V1.7.0 My app disappeared from the store but works - #4 by Bin

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