Ferrodock

Docker, at native speed. A fast, free desktop app for your containers, images, volumes and networks, written entirely in Rust. For macOS, Windows and Linux.

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Ferrodock is a single native app: no Electron, no web view, no background service, and no CPU used while idle. It talks straight to the Docker Engine API, and on Apple Silicon Macs and Windows it can even run its own Docker engine, so there's nothing else to install.

Highlights

• Containers with live CPU and memory, one-click start / stop / pause / restart, clickable ports, bulk actions, and grouping by Compose project.
• Logs, stats, terminal and files: colourful, searchable live logs; CPU and memory charts; a real shell inside any container (even ones without a shell); and a file browser with upload and download.
• Compose: start a project from its compose.yaml, rebuild services, and read every service's logs together.
• Images: search Docker Hub as you type, pull with progress, run with a form that shows the docker run command, and tag, push, save or load.
• Quick start: Postgres, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, MinIO, Mailpit or Nginx in one click, with the connection string ready to copy.
• Volumes and networks: create them, browse a volume's files, connect and disconnect containers.
• Disk: see where the space goes and free it in one step, with a preview of exactly what's deleted. Or start over with Reset Docker.
• Command palette (⌘K / Ctrl+K) and keyboard shortcuts for everything.
• Any engine: Ferrodock's own, a local dockerd, or any Docker context, including remote ones over TLS or SSH. Switch from the sidebar.
• At home on your desktop: light and dark themes, a menu bar / notification area icon, crash notifications, launch at login, and one-click updates.

Install

macOS (with Homebrew):

brew tap manimovassagh/ferrodock https://github.com/manimovassagh/Ferrodock
brew install --cask ferrodock

Or download a build from the latest release:

Each release has a SHA256SUMS.txt to check your download. Ferrodock updates itself: when a new version is out, click Update to x.y.z in the sidebar (or run brew upgrade --cask ferrodock).

The installation guide has the details for each platform.

Ferrodock's own engine

When Ferrodock finds no Docker engine, click Set up Ferrodock's engine. It downloads the engine once, and from then on it starts and stops with Ferrodock.

• Apple Silicon Macs: a small Linux VM with the Docker engine, run through Apple's Virtualization framework. Your home folder is shared, so bind mounts just work.
• Windows: a WSL distro called ferrodock. WSL is part of Windows; if it's off, run wsl --install once as administrator.
• Linux: the Docker engine itself, as a system service. Setting it up asks for your admin password once; then it starts with your computer.

Already run Docker somewhere? Ferrodock connects to it through DOCKER_HOST or your Docker contexts. See Ferrodock's own engine and Connecting to other engines.

Documentation

Everything else lives on the documentation site: getting started, using Ferrodock, updates and releases and troubleshooting. What changed in each version is in CHANGELOG.md.

Build from source

You need Rust 1.95 or newer (on macOS, also run xcode-select --install once; on Windows, let the Rust installer set up the Visual Studio C++ Build Tools).

git clone https://github.com/manimovassagh/Ferrodock.git
cd Ferrodock
cargo run --release

cargo install ferrodock works too. On macOS, packaging/macos/bundle.sh builds a universal Ferrodock.app.

Contributing

Bug reports, ideas and pull requests are welcome: start with an issue, and see CONTRIBUTING.md for the development setup and guidelines. Releases are automated; RELEASING.md explains how. Please report security issues privately, as described in SECURITY.md.

Author

Created and maintained by Mani Movassagh (@manimovassagh).

License

Ferrodock is released under the MIT License. It's free to use for personal, commercial and organisational projects, with no account, subscription or fee. Every dependency is under a permissive open source license, checked in CI. Ferrodock's own engine is built only from free and open source software: see engine/NOTICE.md.