Cruise is a powerful, intuitive, and fully-featured TUI (Terminal User Interface) for interacting with Docker.
Built with Go and Bubbletea, it offers a visually rich, keyboard-first experience for managing containers, images, volumes, networks, logs and more — all from your terminal.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Intuitive and customizable user interface – a clean terminal interface with keyboard shortcuts, themes, and filters for a smooth developer experience.
- Manage Lifecycles of Containers, Images, Volumes, Networks.
- Have a centralized Monitoring service – get instant visibility into container health, system metrics, and live log streams, all in one dashboard.
- Scan images for vulnerabilities.
- Get Detailed view on Docker Artifacts.
- Powerful search and filtering – quickly locate containers, images, or volumes with flexible search, sorting, and context-aware actions.
Website: github.com/NucleoFusion/cruise
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Developer: Nucleo Fusion
License: MIT License
Cruise is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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