Docker Desktop is a desktop app for building, debugging, and testing Dockerized apps and these two are for me the two main advantages of Docker Desktop against terminal:
1. The way you can navigate between services logs is really neat
Docker Desktop individual service logs
If you have ever worked on a docker project with multiple services, knowing what is happening inside each container is essential.
The thing is, we don't always need to be constantly seeing every log of every action in every container.
For this reason, being able to choose which service we want to inspect leaving the rest aside (without having to open many tabs in the terminal) is very useful, easy to navigate and the tree structure in which they are displayed lets you focus on one service at the time, without having to lose yourself in an endless number of lines reviewing what you are looking for.
Docker Desktop service tree structure
By default, logs are pinned to the bottom, which is kind of annoying if you want to scroll up for something "a few pages ago", but by being able to research each service separately, the chances that you need to go far behind really shrink a lot.
Docker Desktop "Stick to bottom" toggle
2. Get inside the container directly to run commands
Being able to get directly into a container among many of them, without having to list, identify or type any random name that docker-compose assigned to our services definitely speeds up the development process every time we need to execute a specific command.
Docker Desktop toolbar buttons
Ok, let me know what you think about it. Maybe you move like a gazelle in the command line and having to use Docker UI it's a waste of precious disk space for docker.raw, or maybe you know any overcoming alternative, I open to suggestions and I would love to hear your experience.
Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed.
Stay safe and give Docker a try!
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