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Re: Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker

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Post by globular-toast »

Timber-6539 wrote: post #38
globular-toast wrote: post #36

Curious why people feel the need for tools like this. I think git benefits massively from a graphical tool but I don't really see the point for docker, docker compose or even kubernetes. I do find CLI completions essential, though.

CLI is good and the best way to manage docker containers, however editing that compose file from a browser tab and hitting recreate slaps different. A web GUI makes it so that users who are otherwise intimidated by CLI can still make use of docker.

I would be worried about where that compose file is being stored. I keep my compose files in a git repo and after I edit them just do `docker compose up -d` (in fact, I hit a key in my editor and it runs that for me, showing the output).

Re: Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker

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Post by throwaway984393 »

willmoss wrote: post #19
gcr wrote: post #14

I am curious why this name was chosen. Is there any connection between Isaiah and whales? Feels somewhat TempleOS-y.

Alright! I'll copy-paste an explanation I gave prior on Reddit. I legit had no idea this would spark so many conversations hahaha. "I like to use a pen name generator, and use the generated name for my projects. It makes it easier for me to name things, rather than having to come up with new naming ideas for every new project. And also, I like the idea that every project has a person's name, as if, by using the proje…

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Re: Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker

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Post by Timber-6539 »

globular-toast wrote: post #41
Timber-6539 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CLI is good and the best way to manage docker containers, however editing that compose file from a browser tab and hitting recreate slaps different. A web GUI makes it so that users who are otherwise intimidated by CLI can still make use of docker.

I would be worried about where that compose file is being stored. I keep my compose files in a git repo and after I edit them just do `docker compose up -d` (in fact, I hit a key in my editor and it runs that for me, showing the output).

Those are 2 hops as opposed to editing and applying the changes from a single interface. With git, assuming you are talking about an online repo, there is always the worry of accidentally leaking credentials etc. Though I assume the project mentioned here is all local so the compose files will be saved in a local directory.

I suppose the two methods (CLI and GUI) don't make much difference but they appeal to different users, maybe even different occasions for the power user.

Re: Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker

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Post by Ajedi32 »

dopidopHN wrote: post #34
jschulenklopper wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You are thinking of Noah and the Whale. You are more likely thinking of Jonah and the Whale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah

Fun fact. In French it’s distinctly not a whale. But a very large fish

I don't know of any translation in English that says whale either: https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Jonah%201%3A17 I think the idea that it was a whale comes mostly from children's adaptations extrapolating from the fact that it says "big fish", whales are big, and the people of the time wouldn't have made a linguistic distinction between fish and fish-like marine mammals.

Re: Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker

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Post by gdw2 »

mfld wrote: post #23

It is an attempt at recreating the lazydocker command-line application from scratch, while making it available as a web application without compromising on the features. Wouldn't it be possible to directly use lazydocker with a browser terminal such as wetty?

I would think so! Looks like the author tried some similar approaches.

In the disclaimer section:

> Before creating Isaiah, I tried to "serve lazydocker over websocket" (trying to send keypresses to the lazydocker process, and retrieving the output via Websocket), but didn't succeed, hence the full rewrite.

> I also tried to start Isaiah from the lazydocker codebase and implement a web interface on top of it, but it seemed impractical or simply beyond my skills, hence the full rewrite.

Re: Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker

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Post by macspoofing »

gdw2 wrote: post #45
mfld wrote: post #23

It is an attempt at recreating the lazydocker command-line application from scratch, while making it available as a web application without compromising on the features. Wouldn't it be possible to directly use lazydocker with a browser terminal such as wetty?

I would think so! Looks like the author tried some similar approaches. In the disclaimer section: > Before creating Isaiah, I tried to "serve lazydocker over websocket" (trying to send keypresses to the lazydocker process, and retrieving the output via Websocket), but didn't succeed, hence the full rewrite. > I also tried to start Isaiah from the lazydocker codebase and implement a web interface on top of it, but it…

Ha! At least OP is honest.

Re: Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

globular-toast wrote: post #36

Curious why people feel the need for tools like this. I think git benefits massively from a graphical tool but I don't really see the point for docker, docker compose or even kubernetes. I do find CLI completions essential, though.

Docker benefits from a graphical tool for the same reason as git does; both CLI tools often require using long id strings from the output of one command as the input of another command.

Re: Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker

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Post by beardyw »

jschulenklopper wrote: post #32
beardyw wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> any connection between Isaiah and whales? You are thinking of Noah and the Whale. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_and_the_Whale

> You are thinking of Noah and the Whale. You are more likely thinking of Jonah and the Whale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah

Being mammals I firmly believe whales would have been on the ark, so I think Noah would have hung out with them. Some other people on the web disagree. It should come as no surprise this has been discussed.

Re: Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker

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Post by rograndom »

raesene9 wrote: post #12

For managing Docker installs another option could be portainer. Their community edition is open source https://docs.portainer.io/v/2.20/start/install-ce/server/doc...

Yacht (https://yacht.sh/) is good too if anything about Portainer upsets you.
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