Lazydocker is a terminal-based user interface tool designed to simplify the management of Docker containers and Docker Compose setups. It provides developers with an intuitive, distraction-free environment to monitor, configure, and interact with their Docker infrastructure directly from the command line.
Key Features:
Terminal UI: A clean, text-based interface that allows users to navigate and manage Docker resources without switching contexts.
Docker & Docker Compose Support: Full integration with both Docker containers and Docker Compose projects for comprehensive management.
Live Updates: Real-time updates of container statuses and logs without manual refreshing.
Quick Actions: Easy execution of common tasks like starting, stopping, or rebuilding containers with minimal input.
Integration with VS Code: Seamless workflow with Visual Studio Code, allowing users to jump directly into their development environment.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for developers, DevOps engineers, and anyone working with Docker who prefers a terminal-based workflow but occasionally needs a visual overview. Lazydocker streamlines Docker management by combining the efficiency of command-line tools with the clarity of a graphical interface, enabling users to work faster and more effectively. It can be installed via winget for easy setup on compatible systems.
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Docker Desktop is an application for macOS and Windows machines for the building and sharing of containerized applications. Access Docker Desktop and follow the guided onboarding to build your first containerized application in minutes.
Podman is a daemonless, open source, Linux native tool designed to make it easy to find, run, build, share and deploy applications using Open Containers Initiative (OCI) Containers and Container Images.
Podman provides a command line interface (CLI) familiar to anyone who has used the Docker Container Engine.
Most users can simply alias Docker to Podman (alias docker=podman) without any problems.
Similar to other common Container Engines (Docker, CRI-O, containerd), Podman relies on an OCI compliant Container Runtime (runc, crun, runv, etc) to interface with the operating system and create the running containers.
This makes the running containers created by Podman nearly indistinguishable from those created by any other common container engine.
Designed for Developers and DevOps Engineers, Lens provides an unparalleled experience for managing and troubleshooting Kubernetes workloads through one intuitive context-aware UI. For teams and organizations, Lens has proven to be the most effective way to learn Kubernetes, boost team productivity and reduce tools required for cloud native development. It's trusted by the world's best product teams; from innovative startups to iconic enterprises. Lens is the #1 choice for Kubernetes with over 1 million users globally.
A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems. Easily install the binary to try it out.
Works with Syft, the powerful SBOM (software bill of materials) tool for container images and filesystems.
Docker Desktop is an application for macOS and Windows machines for the building and sharing of containerized applications. Access Docker Desktop and follow the guided onboarding to build your first containerized application in minutes.
Podman is a daemonless, open source, Linux native tool designed to make it easy to find, run, build, share and deploy applications using Open Containers Initiative (OCI) Containers and Container Images.
Podman provides a command line interface (CLI) familiar to anyone who has used the Docker Container Engine.
Most users can simply alias Docker to Podman (alias docker=podman) without any problems.
Similar to other common Container Engines (Docker, CRI-O, containerd), Podman relies on an OCI compliant Container Runtime (runc, crun, runv, etc) to interface with the operating system and create the running containers.
This makes the running containers created by Podman nearly indistinguishable from those created by any other common container engine.
Designed for Developers and DevOps Engineers, Lens provides an unparalleled experience for managing and troubleshooting Kubernetes workloads through one intuitive context-aware UI. For teams and organizations, Lens has proven to be the most effective way to learn Kubernetes, boost team productivity and reduce tools required for cloud native development. It's trusted by the world's best product teams; from innovative startups to iconic enterprises. Lens is the #1 choice for Kubernetes with over 1 million users globally.
A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems. Easily install the binary to try it out.
Works with Syft, the powerful SBOM (software bill of materials) tool for container images and filesystems.
Minor rant incoming: Something's not working? Maybe a service is down. docker-compose ps. Yep, it's that microservice that's still buggy. No issue, I'll just restart it: docker-compose restart. Okay now let's try again. Oh wait the issue is still there. Hmm. docker-compose ps. Right so the service must have just stopped immediately after starting. I probably would have known that if I was reading the log stream, but there is a lot of clutter in there from other services. I could get the logs for just that one service with docker compose logs --follow myservice but that dies everytime the service dies so I'd need to run that command every time I restart the service. I could alternatively run docker-compose up myservice and in that terminal window if the service is down I could just up it again, but now I've got one service hogging a terminal window even after I no longer care about its logs. I guess when I want to reclaim the terminal realestate I can do ctrl+P,Q, but... wait, that's not working for some reason. Should I use ctrl+C instead? I can't remember if that closes the foreground process or kills the actual service.
What a headache!
Memorising docker commands is hard. Memorising aliases is slightly less hard. Keeping track of your containers across multiple terminal windows is near impossible. What if you had all the information you needed in one terminal window with every common command living one keypress away (and the ability to add custom commands as well). Lazydocker's goal is to make that dream a reality.
Normally lazydocker formula can be found in the Homebrew core but we suggest you to tap our formula to get frequently updated one. It works with Linux, too.
If you encounter a compatibility issue with Docker bundled binary, try rebuilding
the image with the build argument --build-arg DOCKER_VERSION="v$(docker -v | cut -d" " -f3 | rev | cut -c 2- | rev)"
so that the bundled docker binary matches your host docker binary version.
pruning containers, images, or volumes that are hogging up disk space
Contributing
There is still a lot of work to go! Please check out the contributing guide.
For contributor discussion about things not better discussed here in the repo, join the discord channel
Donate
If you would like to support the development of lazydocker, consider sponsoring me (github is matching all donations dollar-for-dollar for 12 months)
Social
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FAQ
How do I edit my config?
By opening lazydocker, clicking on the 'project' panel in the top left, and pressing 'o' (or 'e' if your editor is vim). See Config Docs
How do I get text to wrap in my main panel?
In the future I want to make this the default, but for now there are some CPU issues that arise with wrapping. If you want to enable wrapping, use gui.wrapMainPanel: true
How do you select text?
Because we support mouse events, you will need to hold option while dragging the mouse to indicate you're trying to select text rather than click on something. Alternatively you can disable mouse events via the gui.ignoreMouseEvents config value.
By default we only show logs from the last hour, so that we're not putting too much strain on the machine. This may be why you can't see logs when you first start lazydocker. This can be overwritten in the config's commandTemplates
If you are running lazydocker in Docker container, it is a know bug, that you can't see logs or CPU usage.
Alternatives
docui - Skanehira beat me to the punch on making a docker terminal UI, so definitely check out that repo as well! I think the two repos can live in harmony though: lazydocker is more about managing existing containers/services, and docui is more about creating and configuring them.
Portainer - Portainer tries to solve the same problem but it's accessed via your browser rather than your terminal. It also supports docker swarm.
KWOK is a toolkit that enables setting up a cluster of thousands of Nodes in seconds. Under the scene, all Nodes are simulated to behave like real ones, so the overall approach employs a pretty low resource footprint that you can easily play around on your laptop.
KWOK is a toolkit that enables setting up a cluster of thousands of Nodes in seconds. Under the scene, all Nodes are simulated to behave like real ones, so the overall approach employs a pretty low resource footprint that you can easily play around on your laptop.
Docker Desktop is an application for MacOS and Windows machines for the building and sharing of containerized applications. Access Docker Desktop and follow the guided onboarding to build your first containerized application in minutes.
Docker Desktop is an application for MacOS and Windows machines for the building and sharing of containerized applications. Access Docker Desktop and follow the guided onboarding to build your first containerized application in minutes.
Syft is a powerful and easy-to-use open-source tool for generating Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) for container images and filesystems. It provides detailed visibility into the packages and dependencies in your software, helping you manage vulnerabilities, license compliance, and software supply chain security.
Syft is a powerful and easy-to-use open-source tool for generating Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) for container images and filesystems. It provides detailed visibility into the packages and dependencies in your software, helping you manage vulnerabilities, license compliance, and software supply chain security.
A tool that has been designed to manage multiple docker images and / or tags of these images.
It allows the user to run one of these images / tags in a container, creating snapshots of that running container and manage the downloaded images
A tool that has been designed to manage multiple docker images and / or tags of these images.
It allows the user to run one of these images / tags in a container, creating snapshots of that running container and manage the downloaded images
A tool that has been designed to manage multiple docker images and / or tags of these images.
It allows the user to run one of these images / tags in a container, creating snapshots of that running container and manage the downloaded images
Coder is an open source platform for creating and managing developer workspaces on your preferred clouds and servers. By building on top of common development interfaces (SSH) and infrastructure tools (Terraform), Coder aims to make the process of provisioning and accessing remote workspaces approachable for organizations of various sizes and stages of cloud-native maturity.
Coder is an open source platform for creating and managing developer workspaces on your preferred clouds and servers. By building on top of common development interfaces (SSH) and infrastructure tools (Terraform), Coder aims to make the process of provisioning and accessing remote workspaces approachable for organizations of various sizes and stages of cloud-native maturity.
Coder is an open source platform for creating and managing developer workspaces on your preferred clouds and servers. By building on top of common development interfaces (SSH) and infrastructure tools (Terraform), Coder aims to make the process of provisioning and accessing remote workspaces approachable for organizations of various sizes and stages of cloud-native maturity.
XPipe is a new type of shell connection hub and remote file manager that allows you to access your entire server infrastructure from your local machine. It works on top of your installed command-line programs and does not require any setup on your remote systems.
XPipe is a new type of shell connection hub and remote file manager that allows you to access your entire server infrastructure from your local machine. It works on top of your installed command-line programs and does not require any setup on your remote systems.
XPipe is a new type of shell connection hub and remote file manager that allows you to access your entire server infrastructure from your local machine. It works on top of your installed command-line programs and does not require any setup on your remote systems.
