dockman

This is just an experiment, an implementation of a web UI using the docker CLI: UI => API => Docker CLI => Docker API
It works, but it is neither maintainable nor very reliable, so do not use it in a production env.

A more solid approach would skip the CLI and use the API directly:
Docker API
Docker API Example
NodeJs unix socket example

If you need a "prod ready" app for this, there are plenty (some open source) solutions out there, just search for "docker web UI" or similar.

Prerequisites

• Docker Engine for Linux / Docker Desktop with WSL integration
• Node.js LTS [only for development]

Build

• local folders

node run build

• in Docker

node run build-docker

Scan for vulnerabilities

node run scan

Run

Security warning: Docker daemon has root access, so do NOT expose this outside 127.0.0.1 !!! Info generate self-signed certs with openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -new -nodes -x509 -days 3650 -out cert.crt -keyout cert.key

• local folders

export CERT_CRT="/run/secrets/cert.crt" # optional
export CERT_KEY="/run/secrets/cert.key" # optional
export DEBUG="*" # optional

node run start

=> http://localhost:55557/

• local image

node run start-docker

=> http://localhost:55556/

• public image

docker stop dockman && docker rm dockman || echo "not running

docker run --name dockman --pull always --restart=always -d \
    -v "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock" \
    -v "/var/lib/docker/volumes:/var/lib/docker/volumes" \
    -v "${HOME}/certs/cert.crt:/run/secrets/cert.crt" `# optional` \
    -v "${HOME}/certs/cert.key:/run/secrets/cert.key" `# optional` \
    -p "127.0.0.1:55555:55557" \
    vallyian/dockman:latest

=> http://localhost:55555/

Volumes in WSL

If running Docker Desktop with WSL integration, app won't be able to access volumes (except names) Could still make Docker volume dir accessible in current WSL distro

mkdir -p /var/lib/docker/volumes
mount -t drvfs '\\wsl$\docker-desktop-data\version-pack-data\community\docker\volumes' /var/lib/docker/volumes