Docker Client MX

The catalog, the comic

Recipes from other kitchens.

The same cooks, with a box of recipe cards on the counter: dishes other kitchens wrote down, ready to cook here. The chef fills in the blanks, the inspector reads every card before it goes on the stove, and your own dishes become cards you can share.

1 A box of recipes

Not every dinner has to start from nothing. The catalog is a box of recipe cards from other kitchens: a list such as Arcane’s, each card with a picture, so the one you want is easy to find.
A budget app…there it is.With a picture,easy to spot.
At first there is one box: Arcane’s. Add another and it stands beside it: the list of Portainer, one a friend keeps on the web, or a file on this computer. Every card says which box it came from.
Portainer’scards, too.
Pick a card, and the chef fills in the blanks: the port, the name of the project, and a password nobody else knows. A value the list fixes is on the card too, so you see what goes along.
Port, name, anda passwordof its own.And nobodyelse knows it.

2 Read before it cooks

Before anything goes on the stove, the inspector reads the card. Does it want the whole kitchen, the key to the back door, a cupboard of the house? Each one is named, and to cook it anyway you tick a box.
This one wantsthe key to theback door.
Some cards ask for something from your own pockets: a token your computer happens to carry. The inspector reads the card twice, once with your pockets emptied, and names every place where the two differ.
That token isfrom your pocket.Not forthis dish.
A card that sends you to fetch more cards elsewhere is turned away. And a card that changed after the inspector read it stays off the stove: what you read is what cooks.
Changed sincewe read it.Not tonight.Only oneline!

3 Cards of your own

A dinner of your own that works? Save the compose project as a card of your own. Passwords, secrets and tokens stay blank on the card, and the chef says which ones.
Our soup,on a card.Without thepassword.
Share the box: export your cards as a list, for a folder on the web or for a friend. Cas takes a copy home at nine, and adds it there as a list on that computer.
Cook themwell!For my kitchenat home!
In Docker Client MX: a box of recipes from other kitchens, the blanks filled in, every card read before it cooks, and cards of your own to share.
THE END

The cheat sheet

Every picture above, in the app’s words.

The box of recipe cards
The catalog: lists of templates, from Arcane, Portainer or your own
A recipe card
A template: a compose file, often with a .env
The picture on a card
The logo of the template
Another box
Another list, on the web or on this computer
Filling in the blanks
The fields: ports, names, and passwords made for you
The inspector reading the card
The review: privileged, the Docker socket, folders of the host
A token from your pocket
A variable from your own environment, found by reading the file twice
A card that fetches more cards
include, which would download more before you decide
A card changed after reading
A compose.yaml or .env that changed after the review: not deployed
A card of your own
A compose project saved as a template, with its secrets left empty
Sharing the box
Export your templates as a list
Cook from the catalog.
Templates from Arcane, Portainer or a list of your own, filled in, read before they deploy, and your own projects saved as templates to share.
What the catalog does →Compose, the comic →Checkup, the comic →Download for Windows