Handling Docker With UI Kitematic-Windows

On our previous post, we have learned how to install and use docker using the command line. Here we will learn how to handle docker from UI.

Step 1: 

Right Click on Docker icon from the system tray and click on the Kitematic option.

Step 2:

Download option should be available then click on download button.

 Step 3 :

After completion of the download extract the folder. After the extraction folder it looks like below.

Step 4 :

Kitematic login window will appear we can skip it.

 After login or Skipping this window Kitematic window will be appear like below.

 Step 5 :

Search for the required images.

Step 6: 

Click on Create button, it will download the latest image and run.

 Step 7 : 

To download and run any particular version of an image we need to click on the ellipsoid icon which is beside the Create button.

Now click on Selected Tag option.

Now select the tag as per our requirement, highlighted tag name denotes the default tag version.

 Step 8 :

 We can get the settings of any containers from Settings tab of the any perticular container.

General Tab:

We can change the settings like name, environment variables details etc from the General tab

 Hostname / Ports:

 Port, and network related things can be handled from Hostname/Ports tab. We can publish port from this tab for communite or access this container from external environments.

Volumes:

 Network:
  Network setting of containers and links with the different container is possible from this tab.
 Linking is a important thing by which we can make sure that different containers can communicate.

 Advanced: