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The Nautilus Dev Team responded to requests we heard from the dev community around Docker Compose so we developed Nautilus.

Docker Compose serves as a convenient tool for software engineers developing a microservice-based application. Yet, we heard from various developer friends of ours, one who works for the government on the Medicare website, that as the app grows in complexity, the number of containers, connections and container data can become complicated to track and conceptualize.

To address this need, we created Nautilus, an Electron application, that charts out the containers, network connections, port maps and volumes/bind-mounts in a Compose microservice application. No longer will developers need to hold the map of their network in their heads or on a piece of paper. Nautilus will navigate them through rough waters.

We understand concerns around sharing proprietary information such as a Docker-Compose file on a third party applications. We are in the process of getting the appropriate certifications/signatures so that security concerns are no longer raised. We want to assure you that all of the application information is stored on your local machine; our application makes no network requests (plus, we're 100% open source and welcome contributions). As Josh mentioned, cloning and compiling the application yourself to run it is also a great option! https://github.com/oslabs-beta/nautilus/

Any plans for a similar tool for K8s pods?

I don't have experience with Kubernetes, but is this what you're looking for?

https://k8slens.dev/

Really cool, thanks for sharing. Didn't know I even had a need for Kubernetes IDE until I saw the site.

A lot of that functionality is baked into the Cloud Code extension for VS Code and IntelliJ IDE's.

The UI is almost identical, too.

One thing is not clear: with that extension can you manage your cluster or do you need to use one of the cloud solutions?

Chrome is trying really hard to prevent me from downloading the Mac App. Its saying 'Nautilus-1.2.0.dmg is not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous' and when I clicked to keep it another pop up came up with 'Even if you have downloaded files from this site before, the site may be temporarily unsafe (hacked). Try downloading this file later.'

I don't have any extra security (that I recall) set up on Chrome so I thought I would let you know.

Yeah, you'll have to bypass all those securities if you want to download. We are working on getting our application certified with Apple, Microsoft, linux and all the browsers. If you're worried about security issues, the whole product is open source. You can check it out on our github. But, I promise, everything stays on your system.

If you want to be extra safe, you can clone/fork the repo and compile/build the dmg yourself. First, run `yarn` and then run `yarn package-mac`

Good to know! I'm going to try it out, but I just figured I would point that out incase it wasn't known to your team.

I didn't have the same result. It gave me the first standard warning, and let me download.

Hi there, your images aren’t scaling properly on mobile. Just a friendly heads up.

https://imgur.com/a/PhDWkBU

Thanks for the feedback. We're going to work on some quick fixes right now

Thanks for letting us know. Just released a more optimized mobile site!

Still not correct. They are still impossible to read on mobile. They stretch vertically as in the image above.

* ios

* IPhone 11 pro max

* chrome

Interesting tool though, bookmarked for when I'm on a laptop.

thanks for the input! should be fixed now.

This seems interesting, but I cannot upload proprietary information.

the application runs entirely on your local system. no information is uploaded. No network requests are made. if you are concerned about security, Nautilus is open source. You can check out the code on github. You can even clone the repo and package the application yourself.

Due to user feedback, we’ve renamed the upload functionality to open to make it clear that there is no uploading taking place.

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