podman-tui is a terminal user interface for managing a Podman environment. It gives users a structured, keyboard-driven view of Podman resources while retaining the lightweight character-cell interface associated with terminal applications.
The program uses Podman’s Go bindings and can communicate with either a local Podman installation or a remote Podman machine over SSH. This makes it useful both for administering containers on the current host and for keeping an eye on Podman workloads elsewhere without switching to a browser-based management interface.
Its interface is divided into dedicated screens for the main Podman resource types. Navigation is heavily keyboard oriented, with familiar vi-style movement available alongside cursor keys and function-key shortcuts. podman-tui requires the Podman system service socket to be available for the account being used.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Connect to local Podman installations through the Podman service socket.
- Manage remote Podman machines over SSH.
- Dedicated views for system information, pods and containers.
- Separate screens for volumes, images, networks and secrets.
- Switch quickly between resource screens with function keys.
- Keyboard navigation with arrow keys and vi-style h, j, k and l controls.
- Command menu for operations available on the selected resource.
- Sort displayed resources from the interface.
- Delete selected resources without leaving the TUI.
- Move between interface widgets with the Tab key.
- Display built-in help directly from the interface.
- Supports Podman 6.x in the 2.x release series.
- Uses 256-colour terminal mode on Unix-like systems.
- Can also run on Windows with standard ANSI colours.
Website: github.com/containers/podman-tui
Support:
Developer: Navid Yaghoobi
License: Apache License 2.0
podman-tui is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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