Lazydocker: a terminal GUI for Docker

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker/blob/master/README.md

by jesseduffield • 7 years ago

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jxi• 7 years ago

Looks really nice. For operational-types things, I do wonder if curses UI's are better than web UI's.

Thanks :) As for TUIs vs web UIs, I believe so. The closer the UI is to the command line, the shorter the feedback loop and the more options for customisation. I'm someone who struggles to context switch so if I can do something without having to leave my terminal it helps keep me focused

jek02• 7 years ago

They're more practical: ssh into the server. start the tool. [do your stuff]... close the tool. close ssh session.

With a web UI: ssh into the server. find out you want to check your containers statuses. ssh again while binding some local port to a remote port. start the web UI service. open a browser window. enter the URL. [do your stuff]... close the browser window. go back to the terminal. close the web service. close ssh session.

zeta0134• 7 years ago

The WebUI port forwards can be made a bit more tolerable by using LocalForward in your ~/.ssh/config [1] assuming you're okay with the forwards being set up every time you log in. I agree that it's still clunky though; in-terminal tooling is generally preferable.

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/5/ssh_config

sphero• 7 years ago

Doesn't have to be that way:

I have an alias to a .sh script that launches Portainer (Docker web UI) on the remote host, sets up an SSH tunnel from the remote exposed portainer port to some <local port> and then launches my web browser at localhost:<local port>.

Instant remote Docker GUI. Really snappy too.

Web doesn't have to be slow and messy if you manage it right.

The Portainer UI could use some improvement but that's beside the point

zokier• 7 years ago

I really wish there would be some easy way to make browsers talk http over stdin/out of a process. Port forwarding can be so messy, you need to allocate ports and multi-hop forwarding (eg bastion hosts) can be a problem etc.

mic47• 7 years ago

yes, they are. For operation thing, console > web interface >> gui applications

Thou, there is 1 big advantage of web interfaces and that you can send a link to it to other person (that can make it better than console for some things).

coding1232• 7 years ago

When did terminals get clickables?

emilecantin2• 7 years ago

It's been a while, I've been using Vim that way for ~5 years now. It's just less well-known, but it works very well!

miccah• 7 years ago

htop also has clickable columns

h1d• 7 years ago

tmux tab number can be clicked too.

ComputerGuru• 7 years ago

    :set mouse=a

p_l• 7 years ago

ncurses had its support written in September 1995. SysV4 curses had support earlier. I haven't been able to point exactly when xterm gained mouse support to send the data to terminal programs, but definitely before September 1995.

dmd• 7 years ago

I started using them for my TUI apps in late 1997, so sometime before that.

csomar• 7 years ago

I don't know but Since QBasic since I used it there.

Pokepokalypse• 7 years ago

was there no such thing as kitematic?

nullwasamistake• 7 years ago

Kitematic sucks in every way. I despise it, glad there's something else

colecut• 7 years ago

This being terminal based means it can be used easily over ssh.

RocketSyntax2• 7 years ago

I have tried on 3 occasions to get kitematic working locally without success.

iamjustlooking• 7 years ago

If you like this you might like Glances. I use it on my home cluster to monitor Docker quickly. You can pull it up in a browser for extra laziness.

https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

vbsteven• 7 years ago

This looks good.

I believe there is a lot of room for TUI tools like this. Modern terminals and TUI libraries are advanced enough to support splits, colors, clicks etc.

Why run a 600mb electron app when a small TUI app will do just fine. Even if it’s a 30mb jar file that needs the jvm to run.

I also believe that constraints boost creativity and the fixed amount of rows/colums in a terminal and limited set of colors is great for that.

It’s not because some of these TUIs run full screen that they need to completely drop the unix philosophy. Apps like Mutt, Tig etc frequently delegate to $EDITOR, diff, w3m and others.

Some of my favourite TUI apps:

* Tmux : windows/panes multiplexer

* Tig : git log/status/blame/stage

* Mutt : email

* Fzf : fuzzy finder

* Irssi : IRC

tuukkah• 7 years ago

I also believe that constraints boost creativity and the fixed amount of rows/colums in a terminal and limited set of colors is great for that.

I agree and it's similar for web vs mobile apps. It would be great to come up with design constraints for web apps, but more like Jupyter where you have a way to mix text and graphics. Perhaps a web framework for creating admin tools that can include graphs?

VvR-Ox• 7 years ago

Yes, +1!

I love ncurses and I appreciate every moment I can do my work / some task with a super-fast TUI app instead of using one of these bloated electron-apps or web ui's.

I want to add: * newsbeuter (rss aggregator) * nmtui (network manager)

BTW I don't think that the constraints you are talking about just have to be constraints - I like to think of them as a measure to standardize software. Also the keybindings play a big role which is another feature of many unix tools I love ('e' for edit and 'q' for quit is just crystal-clear no matter where you come from).

dmlittle• 7 years ago

Ngrok is also great!

skosch• 7 years ago

Another favourite of mine is mpsyt – a terminal interface for youtube-dl. I stream music for hours without ever getting ads or even having to have Youtube open in the browser.

bbmario2• 7 years ago

That was pure gold. Thank you, sir.

yjftsjthsd-h• 7 years ago

That is a beautiful logo/icon. Also nice tool; will have to try it out.

zmmmmm2• 7 years ago

any trick to make it look good on a terminal with a light background? not very readable for me.

jesseduffield2• 7 years ago

I've just released a new version which works better with light backgrounds, so feel free to give that a shot and let me know your thoughts :)

zmmmmm2• 7 years ago

Thanks! Looks much better :-)

One oddity, not sure if I have just not read the docs enough - but if I start it within the directory of a docker-compose project, it comes up completely blank. But running outside that directory shows all my containers / services (including running images inside the docker-compose project).

nurettin• 7 years ago

I wish gocui had a simpler us-ascii based theme so I wouldn't have to fix utf-8 when connecting to remote in screen.

sandGorgon• 7 years ago

There is also Dry - https://moncho.github.io/dry/

The best part about dry is using it through docker itself.

PikachuEXE• 7 years ago

Oh thanks for sharing! I found this one more "mature"

RocketSyntax2• 7 years ago

You may want to add high up the documentation that it works with both regular docker and docker-compose.

Without watching the whole video... I would have come away with the impression that it only works with compose.

Khannan• 7 years ago

This is fantastic. Thank you! Really well designed and intuitive. It will save me a lot of hassle monitoring containers on servers.

inetknght• 7 years ago

Nice! Now let it use tmux-style navigation commands instead of a friggen mouse and I'd be happy.

tracker1• 7 years ago

Wonder if this will work in the new windows terminal... would be a good test app if it doesn't.

bbmario2• 7 years ago

This is awesome. I want more.

alpb• 7 years ago

Memorising docker commands is hard.

I wouldn't agree. Literally: run, build, delete, ps, rm.

X6S1x6Okd1st• 7 years ago

docker logs --tail 1000 -F container-name is kind of a pain

Lazydocker: a terminal GUI for Docker

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