dry

March 29, 2026 · View on GitHub

Dry is a terminal application to manage Docker and Docker Swarm.

It shows information about Containers, Images and Networks, and, if running a Swarm cluster, it shows information about Nodes, Service, Stacks and the rest of Swarm constructs. It can be used with both local or remote Docker daemons.

Besides showing information, it can be used to manage Docker. Most of the commands that the official Docker CLI provides, are available in dry with the same behaviour. A list of available commands and their keybindings can be found in dry's help screen or in this README.

Lastly, it can also be used as a monitoring tool for Docker containers.

Dry is installed as a single binary and does not require external libraries.

The demo below shows a dry session.

dry keybinds

Global

Keybinding	Description
`%`	filter list
`F1`	sort list
`F5`	refresh list
`F7`	toggle showing Docker daemon information
`F8`	show docker disk usage
`F9`	show last 10 docker events
`F10`	show docker info
`1`	show container list
`2`	show image list
`3`	show network list
`4`	show volumes list
`5`	show node list (on Swarm mode)
`6`	show service list (on Swarm mode)
`7`	show stacks list (on Swarm mode)
`8`	show compose projects list
`ArrowUp` or `k`	move the cursor one line up
`ArrowDown` or `j`	move the cursor one line down
`g`	move the cursor to the top
`G`	move the cursor to the bottom
`:`	open command palette
`Space`	open Quick Peek for the current selection
`Ctrl+0`	cycle color theme (dark/light)
`q`	quit dry

Workspace mode (`--workspace`)

dry --workspace enables the Phase 1 workspace shell. This keeps the current list view visible together with a passive context pane and a bottom activity pane.

Tab and Shift+Tab switch focus between Navigator, Context, and Activity in the full workspace layout.
When Context is focused, you can scroll it with the usual navigation keys.
p / P pins or unpins the current preview.
: opens the command palette with global and context-aware actions.
Space opens Quick Peek, a temporary side panel with recent logs or inspect/details for the current selection.
f toggles follow mode in the activity pane.
Existing primary actions stay on their original keys. For example, Enter still opens the container command menu and still inspects resources in views where Enter already meant inspect/drill-down.
Embedded activity logs start from a recent tail instead of replaying the full log history.
On narrow or short terminals, workspace mode falls back to a compact single-pane layout and lets Tab switch between navigator and activity.

Container commands

Keybinding	Description
`Enter`	show container command menu (includes Attach for running containers)
`F2`	toggle on/off showing stopped containers
`i`	inspect
`l`	container logs
`e`	remove
`s`	stats
`x`	exec a command in the selected container (default `/bin/sh`)
`Ctrl+e`	remove all stopped containers
`Ctrl+k`	kill
`Ctrl+r`	start/restart
`Ctrl+t`	stop

Image commands

Keybinding	Description
`i`	history
`Ctrl+d`	remove dangling images
`Ctrl+e`	remove image
`Ctrl+f`	remove image (force)
`Ctrl+u`	remove unused images
`Enter`	inspect

Network commands

Keybinding	Description
`Ctrl+e`	remove network
`Enter`	inspect

Volume commands

Keybinding	Description
`Ctrl+a`	remove all volumes
`Ctrl+e`	remove volume
`Ctrl+f`	remove volume (force)
`Ctrl+u`	remove unused volumes
`Enter`	inspect

Service commands

Keybinding	Description
`i`	inspect service
`l`	service logs
`Ctrl+r`	remove service
`Ctrl+s`	scale service
`Ctrl+u`	update service
`Enter`	show service tasks

Compose Projects commands

Keybinding	Description
`Enter`	show project services
`l`	project logs
`Ctrl+t`	stop project containers
`Ctrl+r`	restart project containers
`Ctrl+e`	remove project containers

Compose Services commands

Keybinding	Description
`Enter`	inspect service
`Esc`	back to projects
`l`	service logs
`Ctrl+s`	start service containers
`Ctrl+t`	stop service containers
`Ctrl+r`	restart service containers
`Ctrl+e`	remove service containers

Moving around buffers

Keybinding	Description
`ArrowUp` or `k`	move the cursor one line up
`ArrowDown` or `j`	move the cursor one line down
`g`	move the cursor to the beginning of the buffer
`G`	move the cursor to the end of the buffer
`n`	after search, move forwards to the next search hit
`N`	after search, move backwards to the previous search hit
`s`	search
`pg up`	move the cursor "screen size" lines up
`pg down`	move the cursor "screen size" lines down

Installation

The easiest way to install the latest binaries for Linux and Mac is to run this in a shell:

curl -sSf https://moncho.github.io/dry/dryup.sh | sudo sh
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/dry

Binaries

If you dont like to curl | sh, binaries are provided.

darwin amd64 / arm64
freebsd 386 / amd64
linux 386 / amd64 / arm64 / armv6 / armv7
windows amd64

Mac OS X / Homebrew

If you're on OS X and want to use homebrew:

brew tap moncho/dry
brew install dry

A Docker host given as a parameter (-H).
if none given, a Docker host defined in the $DOCKER_HOST environment variable.
if not defined, to unix:///var/run/docker.sock.

If no connection with a Docker host succeeds, dry will exit.

dry -T light launches dry with the light color theme. Available themes: dark (default), light.

dry --workspace launches the experimental Phase 1 workspace layout.

dry -p launches dry with pprof package active.

Contributing

All contributions are welcome.

Fork the project.
Make changes on a topic branch.
Pull request.

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