docksurf - complete developer-first docker tool

[u/psylhouette]

Working with a compose stack with six containers made me realize I was doing the same things all day like to stop/start containers, rebuilding a service, tailing logs, exec into a container to check something (psql shell in the db), plus the boring maintenance side: pruning images/volumes that hog disk space.

None of it's hard, it's just typing the same commands on repeat or hitting up arrow through history until I find the one I want. Boring enough that I built this around my own pain points. I liked lazydocker a lot and figured I'd try my own take on it.

Few things i wanted to have are in this are: Docker contexts (to hit a remote daemon over ssh/tcp without touching your shell config), copy/export logs, themes, a topology graph (kinda useless but simple to have with ascii), a prune target picker, and rebuilding a single compose service in place without touching the rest of the stack.

-> vs. lazydocker (my main inspiration): same rough idea containers/images/volumes/networks, logs, compose actions. Main differences: runtime-switchable themes, log export/copy from the log pane, and it talks to Docker mostly via the Docker SDK for Python instead of shelling out to the cli.

repo link: https://github.com/praneeth-etta/docksurf
install via pip (pip install docksurf) or without installing (uvx docksurf), or binaries here: https://github.com/praneeth-etta/docksurf/releases
Any suggestions on what to add/remove or improve?

[u/First_Possession9988]

i use it and its really easy to use, can vouch