Immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers, services and images
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Install
Install the API module as a dependency in your project so you can easily use it to query Operations Orchestration REST API
npm install -g docklyUsage
Just fire up dockly and it will automatically connect to your localhost docker daemon through the unix socket:
dockly
Command line options:
It's also possible to provide command line options for dockly to customize the docker connection
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| -s or --socketPath | string | Docker socket to connect to |
| -H or --host | string | Remote docker daemon host to connect to |
| -P or --port | string | Remote docker port to connect to |
| -T or --protocol | http | https | ssh |
Remote docker protocol to connect to |
| --containerFilters | string | String to apply to filter shown containers |
| -h or --help | null | Display help |
| -v or --version | null | Display version information |
--containerFilters
This is a string that could be used to filter the shown containers; its format is in the x-www-form-urlencoded style and the filters you could apply are listed here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/api/v1.37/#operation/ContainerList
Example: --containerFilters="name=test&status=running" to only show running container which name match test.
Docker Support
Run from docker
You can run dockly using docker:
docker run -it --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock lirantal/dockly
Build
If you wish to build dockly as a docker image yourself, you can run the following:
$ docker build -t dockly .
$ docker run -it --rm --name dockly -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock dockly
FAQ
- Unsupported Node.js version
If you're getting the following error in your CLI:
root@neo:~# dockly
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/dockly/src/screen.js:36
constructor (utils = new Map()) {
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token =
at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:374:25)
Or this kind of error:
Trace: TypeError: Object.values is not a function
at screen.toggleMode (/home/vokiel/.nvm/versions/node/v6.11.1/lib/node_modules/dockly/src/screen.js:149:35)
at Screen.screen.key (/home/vokiel/.nvm/versions/node/v6.11.1/lib/node_modules/dockly/src/screen.js:190:12)
at Screen.EventEmitter._emit
(/home/vokiel/.nvm/versions/node/v6.11.1/lib/node_modules/dockly/node_modules/blessed/lib/events.js:98:20)
This is most likely because you're using an unsupported Node.js version. Dockly requires Node.js v7.6 and above
- PuTTY displays garbled text
Follow the steps in this comment to enable VT100 support on the settings for the window
- Icons not working properly
set LANG and LC_ALL to c.UTF-8 like so
export LANG=C.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8for more info please see this issue
Alternatives
See Awesome Docker list for similar tools to work with Docker.
In the news
- Admin Magazine article: Visualizing containers with clarity
- A learnk8s tweet
- Dockly – Manage Docker Containers From Terminal
- Clever cloud CEO, Quentin Adam, tweeting about dockly
Author
Liran Tal liran.tal@gmail.com
