What's already set up
The one-click deploy runs Glance as a Docker container from the official glanceapp/glance image, listening on port 8080 inside the container (commonly mapped to 8080 on the host as well). The dashboard's entire state — pages, widgets, and settings — lives in a single mounted glance.yml file rather than a database, and Glance watches that file for changes, reloading the dashboard automatically whenever you save an edit. The default configuration shipped in one-click installs is typically the project's example file (RSS feeds, sample Twitch channels, generic widgets), so it's meant to be replaced with your own sources rather than used as-is.
First access
Open the server's IP address on the mapped port (http://your-server-ip:8080 in a typical setup) directly in your browser — there's no separate admin-panel path, since the dashboard itself is the entry point. By default Glance has no login screen: anyone with the URL sees the full dashboard, which is fine on a private/internal network but worth locking down before you put anything sensitive on the page.
Editing your dashboard
Every widget — RSS feeds, the Site Monitor list, Docker container tracking — is a YAML block inside glance.yml, grouped into columns and, optionally, multiple pages. Because there's no web-based settings UI, changes are made by editing this file directly (via SFTP, a mounted volume, or a text editor on the server) and saving — no restart command required, thanks to the built-in file watcher.







