![]() ![]() ![]() The application is in its early days with interface quirks ( eg, after creating the project, the containers don't actually start automatically) and lots of typos, but it has a couple of useful extra features that aren't obvious. You first create your project and set a docker-compose.yml file or a docker run command that starts your application. !Sign up for a free Codeship Account Dockstationĭockstation is another 'native' (well, Electron-based) application that looks a lot like Kitematic, but works from a different, 'project' perspective. I'm not 100 percent sure how useful they are when compared to the standard Docker options, but from within the access control of Portainer, you might find them useful. TemplatesĪpp templates add a level on top of Dockerfiles and Compose files in a custom JSON format and allow you to create a Docker application using all the standard and custom functionality that Portainer offers. The screenshot below shows restricting access to the Portainer container to a certain user and role. ![]() Portainer adds user management that lets you define the levels of access team members have to Portainer, and what aspects of Docker they can manage from within Portainer. For remote clusters, you can also jump straight into a console straight in the browser. Helpfully, the overview page includes basic logging and monitoring features, giving an easy overview for troubleshooting. Here's the example application visualized in Portainer, and the overview page for the WordPress container. Portainer covers most major areas of Docker you would want to interact with, offering creation, editing, management, monitoring and deletion of containers, as well as the ability to add, remove, and view images, networks, and volumes, but not edit them. Portainer makes wide use of the Docker API to handle its interactions and monitoring, but for automation, also exposes its own API and template file format. After creating a password and selecting the Docker instance to manage, you're up and running. The -v flag isn't mentioned by default, but you will need it to manage any local Docker containers. You can install and start it with: docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock portainer/portainer Portainer(formerly UI for Docker) is a free open-source web application that runs as a container itself. I have found it a great way to learn Docker you can create containers visually and then dig into the possible configuration options and understand what they are and do. ]Īs it's bundled by default, it's a great way to get started with simple Docker applications and provides a convenient way to browse images on the Docker Hub or your account. Sadly, it has changed little since the acquisition, and it has remained in a permanent beta. When Kitematic first emerged, it was one of the few GUI options available, and when Docker acquired the project in October 2015, I had high hopes for its development. I won't cover it in much detail as you likely know it well already. Kitematic is the default GUI that ships with Docker for Mac and Windows. I will use the WordPress Docker Compose example to test each of these options, as it has multiple containers, sets up links and networks between them, and is sufficiently complex for an example. I am a fan of graphical user interfaces and thought it was time to survey the current landscape of GUIs for interacting with Docker. I leave this recommendation here, as it could be interesting for mac and windows users.The Docker API has allowed for a plethora of options for interfacing with Docker, your containers, and images to emerge from CLIs to desktop applications and web-based management tools. Furthermore it seems that it is now merged into a new product called docker toolbox ( )Īs they don’t support linux, i don’t recommend that anymore Everything you can do in kitematic, you also can do with portainer (and much more). I have a alpha version on my ubuntu dev laptop and i still use it.īut it seems that they now don’t have support for linux anymore. Present all features of that great tool here, goes to far… best to just try it out. In addition, there is a view of the logs for a running image.įurthermore you can visualize consumption of CPU, memory and network usages. Very cool is that you can get a console to a running image in your browser. You can view your containers, images, volumes, networks and more. Once it is started, it runs on port 9000 and you can use it in your browser. ![]() They say it is “The easiest way to manage Docker”… Portainer itself comes as a docker image. Hi docker can be controlled completely by the command line with the “docker” and “docker-compose” commands, it can be useful for docker newbies (like me) to visualize the docker environment on the host machine. ![]()
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