Containers
Real-time CPU and memory. Start, stop, restart, drop into an interactive shell, and tail logs with substring search.
- s start/stop
- r restart
- e exec shell
- l logs
- d delete
v0.3.0 · archived experiment
A tiny TUI for your
A tiny TUI for your
containers
Containers, images, volumes, networks — and now local AI models via Docker Model Runner. All managed with a keystroke, no browser tabs, no memorized flags. Just a beautifully minimal TUI that adapts to any pane.
~/projects — tinyd
# features
Everything you reach for, one keypress away.
Five tabs. Live stats. Deep inspection. In-app chat with local AI
models. tinyd treats Docker the way top treats
processes — fast, focused, fluent.
Images
Layer-by-layer composition, architecture, exposed config. Spawn new containers via an interactive modal — name, ports, env, and a volume picker (existing, new named, or bind mount). Pull from Docker Hub or re-pull the latest tag in one keypress.
- r run new
- p pull
- u update
- i inspect
- d delete
Models new
First-class support for Docker Model Runner. Pull local LLMs from
the ai/ namespace, pick a variant by params and
quant, then chat with them in a full-screen streaming transcript —
all without leaving the terminal.
- c chat in-app
- r REPL
- p pull variant
- y yank curl
- d delete
Volumes
See exactly which containers are attached, driver options, usage — and delete safely with inline Yes/No confirmation.
- i inspect
- d delete
- v columns
Networks
Topology at a glance. IPv4 / IPv6 subnets, driver and scope, connection state — for when port-mapping math gets hairy.
- i inspect
- d delete
- v columns
Fully responsive — works in every pane you throw it in.
Adapts to any terminal size, with a min of 60 columns × 13 rows. Resize your VS Code split, drop into a tmux pane, or SSH into a remote Docker host — the layout reflows without a restart. Auto-detects your light/dark terminal background, and lets you toggle columns per-tab with v.
wide
● nginx-proxy RUNNING 2.3% 128MB
medium
● api-server RUN 15.1%
min
● postgres RUN
# live demo
A look inside the TUI.
Switch tabs — including the new Models tab. The interface is keyboard-only and proud of it.
tinyd · docker.sock
? help · ⌃C×2 quit
# install
Three lines and you're in.
Designed for macOS, Linux and Windows on amd64 and arm64, in Go. The Models tab builds on the public Docker Model Runner interface.
● archived
# tinyd was released as open source in 2026 and is
# now archived. This page is the case study: the interface,
# the flows and the decisions. No downloads.● remote docker
$ export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://host:2376
$ ./tinyd
# keyboard
The whole interface, on a postcard.
Most letter keys are case-insensitive. ? or Shift+H opens help any time.
navigation
- ↑ k
- move up
- ↓ j
- move down
- ← h
- prev tab
- → l
- next tab
- 1–5
- jump to tab
universal
- i
- inspect
- d
- delete
- v
- toggle columns
- ?
- help
- esc
- back / cancel
- ⌃C ×2
- quit
containers
- s
- start / stop
- r
- restart
- e
- exec shell
- l
- logs (then s search)
images
- r
- run new container
- p
- pull from hub
- u
- update to latest
- i
- inspect layers
models
- c
- chat in-app
- r / ⇧R
- shell REPL
- p
- pull variant
- y
- yank curl
# who
Made by a designer. Mostly written by Claude.
tinyd is an experiment in what happens when a designer hands the keys to an AI pair-programmer and asks for the smallest possible Docker Desktop. The result: a little terminal app that boots in milliseconds and stays out of your way.
claude · ♥ · tinyd