Feature Request: Ability to enter docker CLI commands in Portainer

[trosemann]

It would be great to be able to launch docker cli commands via portainer.

On dockerhub for many containers there is a cli command already provided in the documentaiton. For example "docker run --name some-mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw -d mysql:tag". I just want to copy the string, paste it into a portainer field and launch the command. This becomes especially usefull when there are many environment variables and options to set.

Previously I did a workaround. Since I don't have access to the command line on my device, I just created a docker in docker container and bind the container socket to the host socket. This way I was able to use the full functionality of docker via the container console. But now on my host the bind option is blocked and I can't bind my socket anymore.

Now I can't use commands like "docker load", "docker update" etc. anymore.

Is it possible to add such a field that just runs a docker cli command?

[deviantony]

Duplicate of #597

Please follow the discussion in the associated issue. Note that there is no decision on this feature yet.

[trosemann]

This is not exactly a duplicate of #597. I was talking about a field to launch a full command. Not only options for the container creation. #597 is just about optional flags.

[deviantony]

Sorry, thought it was only related to container creation. Indeed, I'm going to re-open this but as discussed in #597 we're using the Docker API to execute Docker requests and implementing this only for container options is a bit challenging already. Will consider this issue for now and see if we want to integrate this feature.

[ibnesayeed]

Thinking out loud... We will need a global prompt or command pallet that can be placed on the Dashboard (or can be invoked by using a keyboard shortcut, for example, Atom and some other code editors as well as Chrome Developer Console have it mapped to Ctrl + Shift + P). This pallet can be used to make fuzzy search to jump to various places. When entered text starts with symbols like $, #, or % (or identified as a command using some other heuristics), it is parsed using some CLI parser library (there are many for NodeJS, some of them can be used in a browser as well). Once the options are parsed, we can navigate to corresponding page automatically and populate the page with parsed data (if applicable). From that point the user can take the action after any necessary changes made to the form. For example, typing $ docker image pull portainer/portainer:develop in the command pallet then hitting enter, should navigate to /#/images/ page and fill the "Pull image" form accordingly (i.e., Name field with portainer/portainer:develop).