cruise AlternativesDocker Managers and other similar apps like cruise

cruise is described as 'Cruise is a powerful, intuitive, and fully-featured TUI (Terminal User Interface) for interacting with Docker. Built with Go and Bubbletea, it offers a visually rich, keyboard-first experience for managing containers, images, volumes, networks, logs and more — all from your terminal' and is a Docker Manager in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to cruise for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Docker, Self-Hosted, Windows and Mac apps. The best cruise alternative is Portainer. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Portainer or Arcane - Docker Management UI. Other great apps like cruise are Rancher, Lazydocker, Rancher Desktop and Ctop.

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  1. Portainer icon

    Portainer

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    Portainer Community Edition is a lightweight service delivery platform for containerized applications that can be used to manage Docker, Swarm, and Kubernetes environments. It is designed to be as simple to deploy as it is to use.

    26 Portainer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Self-Hosted
    • Kubernetes
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    • Portainer is the most popular Windows, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to cruise.

    • Portainer is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to cruise.

    • Portainer is Free Personal and Open Sourcecruise is Free and Open Source
    • Portainer is Lightweightcruise is not according to our users
  2. Arcane - Docker Management UI icon

    Arcane - Docker Management UI

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    Arcane is a modern, web-based interface for managing your Docker environment, built with SvelteKit. It offers a clean, intuitive overview and powerful management tools for your containers, images, volumes, and networks—all in one place.

    21 Arcane - Docker Management UI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  4. Dockge icon

    Dockge

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    Dockge could be considered a Portainer replacement if you're only managing your container with docker-compose. However, for managing docker networks and single containers, Portainer might still be necessary. You can install both Dockge and Portainer.

    19 Dockge alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  5. Rancher icon

    Rancher

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    Rancher is an open source container management platform built for organizations that deploy containers in production. Rancher makes it easy to run Kubernetes everywhere, meet IT requirements, and empower DevOps teams.

    33 Rancher alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Lazydocker icon

    Lazydocker

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    Memorising docker commands is hard. Memorising aliases is slightly less hard. Keeping track of your containers across multiple terminal windows is near impossible. What if you had all the information you needed in one terminal window with every common command living one keypress...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
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    • Lazydocker is the most popular Mac alternative to cruise.

    • Lazydocker is Free and Open Sourcecruise is also Free and Open Source
  7. Rancher Desktop icon

    Rancher Desktop

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    Rancher Desktop is an open-source desktop application for Mac, Windows and Linux. It provides Kubernetes and container management. You can choose the version of Kubernetes you want to run. You can build, push, pull, and run container images.

    42 Rancher Desktop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Ctop icon

    Ctop

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    Top-like interface for container metrics. ctop provides a concise and condensed overview of real-time metrics for multiple containers as well as a single container view for inspecting a specific container.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Docker
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  10. Dokemon icon

    Dokemon

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    Docker Container Management GUI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    Manage containers, images, volumes, networks
     
  11. Yacht icon

    Yacht

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    A web interface for managing docker containers with an emphasis on templating to provide 1 click deployments. Yacht is a flask based container management UI with a focus on templates and 1-click deployments.

    19 Yacht alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  12. GOCKER icon

    GOCKER

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    GOCKER is a text user interface on Docker. Its purpose is to add a GUI/TUI to local docker instances, it is largely inspired by K9S.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
    • Docker
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  13. sen

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    sen is a terminal user interface for containers:

    it can interactively manage your containers and images: start, stop, restart, kill, delete,... there is a "dashboard" view for containers and images you are able to inspect containers and images sen can fetch logs of con.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Docker
    • Python
    • Linux
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    dockly

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    Immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers and services.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Docker
    • Linux
    • npm
    • JavaScript
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