| The first cross platform container engine desktop graphical user interface is back. - New website https://container-desktop.com/ - Github repo https://github.com/iongion/container-desktop - Microsoft Store digitally signed/verified/virus scanned/human tested executable https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mtg4qx6d3ks Now with its own domain name, new name, same old name, MIT license, no telemetry, no tracking and some fun joke of pricing: - Personal - includes support for all popular container engines in any configuration imagined, the price is 0 (zero) for a single developer with as many personalities as one can heave - Pro - Everything in personal, plus unlimited everything - price is now 0 (zero) per month
Team - Everything from pro but now 0 per user per month, up to 100 users - then 0 (zero) for the rest of the born and unborn people / ai / bots of the perceivable and unperceivable world - Business - Everything from Team - with a slight shift of price - 0 zero - Unlimited / Universal / Starship Enterprise - At everyone's discretion! Don't take the list above seriously, it is just making fun, the project is totally free and open source. ## Here are the most notable remarks about what changed over the last 2 years - Refactored connection system to allow any container engine combinations imagined - podman is the driving engine and podman is prioritized and considered as requirement. You can now connect to podman, docker, in VMs, in WSL/LIMA/COLIMA and even SSH as long as it is properly configured. - To avoid onboarding procedure for the impatient user - it tries to detect all by itself. Normally it should just work for GUI users, power users can define their own connections or assume control like The Borg using CLI/sockets/pipes/APIs/libpod directly. - Released to Microsoft Store - because they have a decent one-time only fee, unlike others, this was achievable to help colleagues and friends have verified / secure and easy available installations on their machines. Microsoft did wonders with WSL and brought fun back too for developers. - Added privacy policy (due to submission in the store) - Changed name (also due to submission in the store ) - Too many UI improvements and bugs fixed worth mentioning ## Next steps - Add UI metaphors for all that is offered by podman cli and libpod api
- Be free and have fun ## Questions for the curious - What made get back to it ? - Time and recent changes again, just like 2 years ago. - Are you aware there is a Podman Desktop - No! (of course I am. It is very good actually for all the features it offers, it is unmatched) - Are you aware there is a container-desktop - Now yes, but actually for this one I wasn't until MS approved my project as they rejected it when I submitted it for the first time with its original name, mentioning it was too close to Podman Desktop, which it was indeed, even if it was first. It was a hasty and sad decision. - Is it dead ? is it alive ? - It is Heisenberg! If you use it, it is alive, if you don't, it is not so alive. - Why do you like it ? - I am having fun, it helps my colleagues/students/friends understand non-superficial inner workings of containers - in the end, they jump away and use the CLI anyway! At least it gives them more visibility and understanding of containers, without assimilating outdated synonyms. - Is it better than A / B / C - Yes, of course! (joke, who cares ?) Cheers and have fun too! |