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Figure 7-2. Kitematic Settings Configuration window
Kitematic is useful for local work and simple container tasks. It will certainly be inte‐
grated with Docker Compose and Swarm, which will make it a powerful graphical
interface for managing production deployments.
See Also
• Kitematic official 
website
7.6 Managing Containers Through Docker UI
Problem
You have access to a Docker host and know how to manage images and containers,
but you would like to use a simple web interface.
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Solution
Use the Docker 
UI
. Although you can create your own 
image
 from source, the
Docker UI is also available on 
Docker Hub
, which makes running it in a container
straightforward.
On your Docker host, start the Docker UI container:
$ docker run -d -p 9000:9000
--privileged
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
dockerui/dockerui
You can then open your browser a:9000">t 
:9000">http://:9000
:9000"> and you
will have access to the UI. 
Figure 7-3
shows an example.
Figure 7-3. Docker UI dashboard
The Docker UI is not part of the official Docker release and is a
community-maintained 
project
.
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Discussion
Once you have access to the UI, you can start a container. Go to the Images tab, select
an image, and click the Create button. You will be able to specify all the container
start-up options through the UI. Do not miss the HostConfig options, where you can
set port mappings. 
Figure 7-4
 shows you a preview of this screen.
Figure 7-4. Starting a container through the Docker UI