Nice Gui for running Docker Containers?

[excalibur313]

I'd like to run several docker containers on my computer and I was curious if there was any piece of software that would allow me to do it visually and it would daemonize the process. I'm thinking in particular of something like the app interface that unraid has:

I know I could use docker-compose but that doesn't seem like the best option since I'd need to run that after any computer restart.

 

[jzuena]

Do you need to start the containers at startup, or the GUI? Portainer lets you set the restart policy for each container so that they can restart on reboot. It isn't macOS native, though. It's browser based and doesn't look quite as good as Unraid. I used to use Captain to simply toggle containers on/off from the menu bar, but I don't see a way to set the restart policy via GUI with that. Since Docker for macOS requires a Linux VM that the containers run in anyway, I ended up moving my containers over to a Proxmox server and went with Portainer (running as a Docker container with restart always as the policy), so I've never tested the restart on reboot under macOS Docker. To be honest, I've pretty much switched to native Linux LXC containers on ProxMox anyway. For persistent servers on my home network it was easier to use than Docker, and ProxMox has a pretty slick GUI for configuring VMs and containers. Docker is just a bolt-on, and needs its own GUI.

 

[cyb3rdud3]

Kitematic from Docker itself does the trick for me, did you try that?