Wharfee is a powerful interactive shell with autocompletion and history. Use Wharfee, a Python-based interactive CLI. Wharfee is based on docker-py and uses a few Python modules to create interactive shell.

On a Docker host, install Python and the package index command line pip. Then install Wharfee. For example, on a Ubuntu system:

  $ sudo apt-get install python3.7 python3.7-pip
  $ sudo pip install wharfee

You are now ready to use this new powerful command-line interface. The commands that you use are exactly the same Docker commands but you don’t have to use the docker prefix. As you type, you get autocompletion suggestions and some syntax highlighting.

  $ wharfee                                                      
  Version: 0.10                        
  Home: http://wharfee.com
  wharfee>

You also can list images from Docker, just perform images to the CLI and you’ll be prompted to the autocompletion to list options.

  wharfee> images

To start a container, you have to pull an image explictly. Pay attention to the image:name being autocompleted as shown on the screenshot.

  wharfee> pull nginx:latest


  wharfee> run -d -p 80:80 nginx:latest
  2b3d57bd2ce70c3f74793403b931a0b905271f28c8127fba5131965ea0823c37
  wharfee> ps
  Id           Names                Image         Command                Created    Ports               Status
  -----------  -------------------  ------------  ---------------------  ---------  ------------------  ------------
  2b3d57bd2ce  flamboyant_hamilton  nginx:latest  nginx -g 'daemon off;' now        0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp  Up 6 seconds