D-Force (d4s)

D4S (pronounced D-Force) brings the power and ergonomics of K9s to the local Docker ecosystem. Stop wrestling with verbose CLI commands and start managing your containers like a pro.

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Features

• Fancy UI: Modern TUI with Dracula theme, smooth navigation, and live updates.
• Keyboard Centric: Vim-like navigation (j/k), shortcuts for everything. No mouse needed.
• Full Scope: Supports Containers, Images, Volumes, Networks.
• Compose Aware: Easily identify containers belonging to Compose stacks.
• Swarm Aware: Supports Nodes, Services.
• Powerful Search: Instant fuzzy filtering (/) and command palette (:).
• Live Stats: Real-time CPU/Mem usage for containers and host context.
• Advanced Logs: Streaming logs with auto-scroll, timestamps toggle, and wrap mode.
• Quick Shell: Drop into a container shell (s) in a split second.
• Contextual Actions: Inspect, Restart, Stop, Prune, Delete with safety confirmations.

Installation

Generic

Binary Releases

Automated

curl -fsSL https://d4scli.io/install.sh | sh -s -- ~/.local/bin

The script installs downloaded binary to $HOME/.local/bin directory by default, but it can be changed by setting DIR environment variable.

Manual

Grab a release from the releases page and install it manually.

Docker

docker run --rm --pull always -it -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock ghcr.io/jr-k/d4s:latest

You might want to create an alias for quicker usage. For example:

echo "alias d4s='docker run --rm --pull always -it -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock ghcr.io/jr-k/d4s:latest'" >> ~/.zshrc

After running this, either restart your terminal or run source ~/.zshrc (or source ~/.bashrc for Bash) to enable the alias.

From Source

Requirement: Go 1.21+

git clone https://github.com/jr-k/d4s.git
cd d4s
go build -o d4s cmd/d4s/main.go
sudo mv d4s ~/.local/bin/

# Make the binary accessible then run it
mv d4s ~/.local/bin/
d4s

# Quickly run from source
go run cmd/d4s/main.go

macOS

Homebrew

brew install jr-k/d4s/d4s

Linux

APT (Debian/Ubuntu)

sudo apt install -y gpg && curl -fsSL https://apt.d4scli.io/d4s.gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/d4s.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/d4s.gpg] https://apt.d4scli.io stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/d4s.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install d4s

RPM (Fedora/RHEL)

sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/d4s.repo <<EOF
[d4s]
name=D4S Repository
baseurl=https://rpm.d4scli.io
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://rpm.d4scli.io/RPM-GPG-KEY-d4s
EOF
sudo dnf install d4s

Zypper (openSUSE)

sudo zypper addrepo https://zypper.d4scli.io d4s
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install d4s

Windows

Scoop

scoop bucket add d4s https://github.com/jr-k/scoop-d4s
scoop install d4s

Usage

d4s
d4s version
d4s --context my-remote-ctx

Configuration

D4S uses a YAML configuration file located at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/d4s/config.yaml (defaults to ~/.config/d4s/config.yaml).

All settings are optional and have sensible defaults. Below is a fully documented example:

d4s:
  # Refresh interval in seconds. Minimum 2.0 — values below are capped. Default: 2.0
  refreshRate: 2
  # Docker API server request timeout. Default: 120s
  apiServerTimeout: 15s
  # Disable all modification commands (delete, kill, restart, etc.). Default: false
  readOnly: false
  # Default view on startup (containers, images, volumes, networks, services, nodes, compose, secrets). Default: "" (containers)
  defaultView: ""
  # When true, Ctrl+C won't exit — use :quit instead. Default: false
  noExitOnCtrlC: false
  # Skip checking GitHub for new releases on startup. Default: false
  skipLatestRevCheck: false

  # UI settings
  ui:
    # Enable mouse support. Default: false
    enableMouse: false
    # Hide the entire header bar (stats + shortcuts + logo). Default: false
    headless: false
    # Hide the D4S ASCII logo from the header. Default: false
    logoless: false
    # Hide breadcrumb trail in the status bar. Default: false
    crumbsless: false
    # Invert all theme colors (dark↔light), preserving hue. Default: false
    invert: false
    # Skin name — loads from $XDG_DATA_HOME/d4s/skins/<name>.yaml. Default: "default" (builtin: default, dracula)
    skin: "default"

  # Log viewer settings
  logger:
    # Number of tail lines to fetch initially. Default: 100
    tail: 200
    # How far back to go in the log timeline (seconds). -1 = tail mode. Default: -1
    sinceSeconds: -1
    # Enable line wrapping in log viewer. Default: false
    textWrap: false
    # Disable auto-scroll when new log lines arrive. Default: false
    disableAutoscroll: false
    # Show timestamps on each log line. Default: false
    showTime: false

  # Shell pod used for volume browsing and secret decoding
  shellPod:
    image: ghcr.io/jr-k/nget:latest

Skins

Built-in Skins

Set skin using --skin (or -s) flag when running d4s or set d4s.ui.skin option in the configuration file.

D4S comes with a few built-in skins:

• default
• dracula
• monokai
• nord
• gruvbox
• tokyonight

Custom Skins

D4S supports custom skins. Skins are stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME/d4s/skins/<name>.yaml (defaults to ~/.local/share/d4s/skins).

Contributing

There's still plenty to do! Take a look at the contributing guide to see how you can help.

Discussion / Need help ?

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Built with Go & Tview. Inspired by K9s.

D4s uses several open source libraries. Thanks to the maintainers who make this possible.