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Yacht – A web interface for managing Docker containers

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The lack of screenshots or useful videos other than the tiny video that can't be controlled on the doc page is poor web design. If you want people to use your GUI tool, they need to be able to see it first.

The small video on imgur, which makes it a little easier to zoom in, but it's pretty low res:

https://imgur.com/a/BRmYDfF

https://i.imgur.com/2U1JvXd.mp4

There is a video at the top of the docs, but I agree it should be featured on the landing page

Yeah, I have no idea how it works. The docs talk about "container templating"-- what?

Yeah, having trouble figuring out why I would want to use this tool. What problem is it trying to solve? How does it differentiate itself from other tools out there? I just get a list of features and a tiny video.

I have used portainer in the past to manage containers, curious whether this offers something different or if they are fairly similar.

https://www.portainer.io/

I don't use it anymore since I find CLI faster, and am starting to migrate to Nomad, but my main gripe with Portainer was the spotty compose support, that I basically had to write them outside, launch them, and then have them show up in Portainer, kind of defeating the point of the frontend.

If the compose support in this is better I could see the value for people just dipping their toe in.

It got significantly better in an update towards the end of last year (IIRC). Can also use GitHub as a source of truth for stacks now, and has webhooks etc.

Unless I'm missing something, one common use case the GUI makes a lot faster is issuing commands that need container/image/volume ids. Opening a terminal in a container is a click or two instead of two commands where the second requires visually parsing some large screen of text and carefully transcribing a few characters. It also hard to remember all the command line flags and their inconsistencies (which commands support -a and which do not?)

Been using portainer for a while and it's been great.

I prefer lazydocker[1].

1: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker

It froze when I tried to log in with my username: oligarch.

I have used Yacht for a while to manage my server. I usually used it when i wasn't behind my laptop with SSH access, and wanted to restart a service/check logs/update, and you could do that easily with a browser on phone or other pc. I like yacht compared to Portainer as it is much simpler, and does not contain as many possibilities and doesn't try to hijack the whole deployment process for which i happily use docker-compose.

Eventually i did turn back to a combination of portainer for checking/restarting services and dozzle for logs. Mainly because of how slow and sluggish Yacht runs, also the limited possibilities to change Yacht's default view.

Neat, but it is a huge security issue to mount your Docker socket into a container, essentially giving it full access to all your containers. Shouldn't this be limited to bare API permissions as opposed to full access?

Yes, it essentially gives root privileges to it.

I suppose that's intended in this case.

Very nice. I am thinking this to be on lines of Bitnami ...Nice to see basic server info also on the dashboard. Would definitely try this.

This is awesome! Can I help you fix the website a tiny bit to make it top notch and get the founders started with a content strategy & machine?

This is purely help, 100% free. So feel free to reach out. :)

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