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sen: terminal user interface for docker engine

Summary

sen enables you to manage your containers and images interactively directly from command line. Interface is similar to htop, alot or tig.

Owner

  • Name: Tomas Tomecek
  • Email: ttomecek@redhat.com
  • Release notes owner:
  • Product: Fedora
  • Responsible WG: Cloud

Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora 24
  • Last updated: 2015-12-07
  • Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

Features:

  • it can interactively manage your containers and images:
    • manage? start, stop, restart, kill, delete,...
  • you are able to inspect containers and images
  • sen can fetch logs of containers and even stream logs real-time
  • all buffers support searching and filtering
  • sen receives real-time updates from docker when anything changes
    • e.g. if you create a container in another terminal, sen will pick it up
  • sen notifies you whenever something happens (and reports slow queries)
  • supports a lot of vim-like keybindings (j, k, gg, /, ...)

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora will be probably the first distribution having sen natively packaged. Benefit for Fedora users will be to manage containers and images interactively instead of manual docker cli usage.


Scope

  • Proposal owners:
    • package sen to Fedora
    • provide an information it's available and documentation how to use it (maybe via developer portal, or release notes)
  • Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

$ sudo dnf install sen
$ sudo systemctl start docker
$ sen


User Experience

$ docker ps
$ docker images
$ docker inspect
$ docker logs

vs.

$ sen
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Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

  • Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Blocks release? No
  • Blocks product? No

Documentation

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Release Notes