podman-tui: A Go repository from MarcinZablocki

podman-tui

podman-tui is a Terminal User Interface to interact with the podman v4.
podman bindings has been used to communicate with podman environment through rest api API (unix socket).

Installation

Building from source or installing packaged versions are detailed in install guide.

PreRun Checks

podman-tui use podman unix socket for query therefore podman.socket service needs to be running.
The recommended way to start Podman system service in production mode is via systemd socket-activation:
```
$ systemctl --user start podman.socket
```
See start podman system service for more details.
podman-tui uses 256 colors terminal mode. On `Nix system make sure TERM is set accordingly.
```
$ export TERM=xterm-256color
```

The Command Line

Usage:
  podman-tui [flags]
  podman-tui [command]

Available Commands:
  help        Help about any command
  version     Display podman-tui version and exit.


Flags:
  -d, --debug             Run application in debug mode
  -h, --help              help for podman-tui
  -l, --log-file string   Application runtime log file (default "podman-tui.log")

Key Binding

podman-tui uses following keyboard keys for different actions:

Action	Key
Display command menu	m
Switch to next screen	l
Switch to previous screen	h
Move up	k
Move down	j
Exit application	Ctrl+c
Close the active dialog	Esc
Switch between interface widgets	Tab
Delete selected item	Delete
Move up/down	Up/Down
Previous/Next screen	Left/Right
Scroll Up	Page Up
Scroll Down	Page Down
Display help screen	F1
Display system screen	F2
Display pods screen	F3
Display containers screen	F4
Display volumes screen	F5
Display images screen	F6
Display networks screen	F7

Available commands on different views