![]() Kitematic automates the Docker installation and setup process and provides an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) for running Docker containers. It is an open-source project built to simplify and streamline using Docker on a Mac or Windows PC. ![]() ![]() Kitematic is a simple application for managing Docker containers on Mac, Linux, and Windows. Image – Docker Desktop Dashboard #1.Kitematic The Dashboard provides a runtime view of all your containers and applications. To access the Docker Desktop Dashboard, from the Docker menu, select Dashboard. Quick visibility into ports being used by containers.Access to combined Compose logs from the UI to understand Compose applications.Access to container logs directly in the UI to search and explore container behavior.A GUI to abstract core information from the CLI.The Docker Desktop Dashboard offers the following : It provides a simple interface that enables you to interact with containers and applications and manage the lifecycle of your applications directly from your machine. With this context now, let us check the TOP 6 GUI tools for managing Docker environments.ĭocker Desktop Dashboard has been introduced in the latest release of Docker Desktop. Below GUI tools extensively uses API to interface with the Docker engine. Everything the Docker client can do can be done with the API. The Docker API has allowed limitless options for interfacing with Docker engine, containers, and images to emerge from CLIs to desktop applications and web-based management tools. Docker provides an API for interacting with the Docker daemon (called the Docker Engine API). Containers can get native access, each one running in a discrete process, taking no more memory than any other executable.ĭocker as we know, is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications, whether on laptops, data center VMs, or the cloud. They have better performance characteristics than virtual machines that only get virtual access to host resources through a hypervisor. Containers take up less space than VMs (container images are typically tens of MBs in size), and start almost instantly.Ī container image is a lightweight, stand-alone, executable package of a piece of software that includes everything needed to run it: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, settings.Ĭontainers run apps natively on the host machine’s kernel. Multiple containers can run on the same machine and share the OS kernel with other containers, each running as isolated processes in userspace. Docker have said that you’ll still be able to use Docker Machine after Docker for Windows arrives and if you want to use VMWare that this may still be the best option for you.Before we start, a little bit of intro on Containers, its an abstraction at the app layer that packages code and dependencies together. Is this useful?Įven as I write this post I know that the Docker for Windows beta is coming out but that only uses Hyper-V at the moment. One side effect of this is that you won’t be able to use Kitematic since it only works with VirtualBox on windows. At this point you can either leave as is or uninstall VirtualBox. To be happy that its all working you can simply disable the network adapters and then any container you create should work. The reason for this is the network adapters that VirtualBox installs will stop Docker talking to the VMWare virtual machine. Next you want to get the VMWare workstation driver from here, its an exe but you don’t run it you just need to copy the driver into the folder where you installed Docker Machine (usually C:\Program Files\Docker Toolbox).Īt this point you’ll be able to run a create command which will build a Docker instance but you won’t be able to talk to the container. How to.īefore you start you need to be on Windows 7 or above and have VMWare workstation already installed.įirst install Docker machine for windows (you can get it from here), this will install all the normal programs needed to run docker. With a bit of trial and error I got it working and thought I’d share how to do it here. I’ve wanted to explore Docker for a while now being on windows meant I’d need to use VirtualBox which I didn’t want to do since I already have VMWare Workstation installed.Īfter a bit of a google I found that there was a driver to use VMWare with docker but no posts describing how to use it. ![]()
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