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mrjackwills/oxker
A simple tui to view & control docker containers
oxker is a terminal UI for managing Docker containers — view stats, stream logs, exec into containers, start/stop/delete, all from a single ratatui interface. It uses Bollard (Rust Docker API client) under the hood, so no Docker CLI dependency required. Aimed at developers who spend time in the terminal and want something faster than the Docker Desktop GUI.
The snapshot test suite for every UI component is unusually thorough for a TUI tool — 100+ insta snapshots covering color themes, custom keymaps, and container states mean regressions in layout are caught automatically. Custom keymap and color scheme support via TOML/JSON/JSONC config gives it staying power as a daily driver. Multi-arch Docker images (amd64, arm64, armv6) including a tested Pi Zero build is real effort that most similar tools skip. The `--host` flag plus `$DOCKER_HOST` env var support means it works against remote Docker daemons without any extra setup.
No Docker Compose awareness — you can see individual containers but there's no grouping by stack, which is the way most people actually run Docker locally. Exec into container is Linux-only (noted in the README), so macOS and Windows users lose a key feature. Log search (`#` key) exists but there's no log export filter — you save the full log or nothing. 1718 stars but only 46 forks suggests usage is higher than contribution, and the contributor count looks thin; a bus-factor risk if the maintainer moves on.