Advice needed - Docker Container Manager

[_kabal_]

stevedore looks really interesting.

from what I can see, this kind of "avoids" the licensing costs needed for Docker Desktop

now I dig a little deeper and there are tons of alternatives

container-desktop

Provides an alternative for Docker for Desktop on Windows using WSL2.

container-desktop.io

Podman

podman.io

Rancher Desktop by SUSE

Open source desktop application that provides Kubernetes, Container Management, bundled utilities on the desktop

rancherdesktop.io

 

[MagNorthDigital]

Gave him the benefit of the doubt when he said "Latest modernization"

Something like Thinglogix Foundry

Wonderful, brilliant, fast and efficient until the first round of feature requests come in from stakeholders.

And trying to explain 2 years from now, you'll be migrating everything, to a new low code environment

 

[Roo!]

now I dig a little deeper and there are tons of alternatives

container-desktop

Provides an alternative for Docker for Desktop on Windows using WSL2.

container-desktop.io

Podman

podman.io

Rancher Desktop by SUSE

Open source desktop application that provides Kubernetes, Container Management, bundled utilities on the desktop

rancherdesktop.io

Yep, I liked the idea of container-desktop but there's a bug in the installer, I need to "run-as" admin on my work PC and the related AppData files were installed in the admin user's home directory and thus it would not run. I reported it to the author but then needed to move on so I'm not sure if it's still an issue. This was a few weeks ago.

I really needed docker-compose as I have projects with multiple containers set up in them (such as Zookeeper+Kafka). This left me needing the docker tools, which stevedore provides with a mechanism to keep them updated. Remember the core docker libs and exes are open-source and free, it's just the Docker Desktop GUI that is not.

 

[_kabal_]

Yep, I liked the idea of container-desktop but there's a bug in the installer, I need to "run-as" admin on my work PC and the related AppData files were installed in the admin user's home directory and thus it would not run. I reported it to the author but then needed to move on so I'm not sure if it's still an issue. This was a few weeks ago.

I really needed docker-compose as I have projects with multiple containers set up in them (such as Zookeeper+Kafka). This left me needing the docker tools, which stevedore provides with a mechanism to keep them updated. Remember the core docker libs and exes are open-source and free, it's just the Docker Desktop GUI that is not.

yeah, this is not really an issue for me, we use Linux and don't actually use Docker Desktop, but at one of my corporate clients they are on Windows, and went on a whole "everyone must uninstall Docker from their machines" spiel.

At the end of the day, all I care about is being able to run `docker compose up -d` - for me there is zero value in a UI for configuring/managing containers, but I understand why people think they are useful (see all the git GUI's that exist)