Introduction

With docker manager you can:

• Configure your containers easily using a simple YAML file
• Start them in the background (detached mode)
• Make multiple connections to your running containers
• Save the containers' state at any time
• Stop your containers and, optionally, save their current state

Installation

From source

If you are running Archlinux, you can install the package docker-manager-git from the AUR.

Otherwise you can compile it yourself by running (Golang is required):

go get github.com/BenjaminNavarro/docker-manager

Then you can move or link the docker-manager executable to a suitable location, e.g mv docker-manager /usr/local/bin.

From binaries

You can get the latest's release Linux binaries from here. Extract the archive's content, e.g with tar -xf docker-manager.tar.gz, and move or link the docker-manager executable to a suitable location, e.g mv docker-manager /usr/local/bin.

Usage

The configuration file

Docker manager requires a YAML configuration file located at:

$HOME/.docker-manager.yaml

It can contain any number of docker configurations. You can follow the following example to write your own configuration file:

-   name: MyFirstContainer
    image: my/container
    tag: latest # default
    save_tag: latest    # default = tag
    autosave: true      # default: false
    runtime: nvidia     # default: none
    privileged: true    # default: false
    gui: true           # default: false
    shell: bash         # default
    folders:            # default: none
        -   host: /path/to/my/folder
            container: /path/inside/the/container
    capabilities:
        add:
            - NET_RAW
        drop:
            - SETPCAP
    extra_flags: --env="GOPATH=/opt/go"

-   name: Another Container    # spaces will be removed
    image: other/container
    autosave: true
    network: host               # default bridge
    capabilities:
        add: [ALL]

Using docker manager

You can run docker-manager then go through the menus to select what you want to do:

Please select an image:
	1) MyFirstContainer
	2) AnotherContainer
>>> 1  
Please select an action for this container:
	1) Start
	2) Connect
	3) Save
	4) Stop
	5) Show
>>> 1

You can also pass arguments to docker-manager to skip the menus. The first argument is the container's name (as given in .docker-manager.yaml) and the second is the action to take:

• start
• connect
• save
• stop
• show

So for example you can run: docker-manager MyFirstContainer start

If one argument is missing or incorrect, the corresponding menu will be prompted.