Docker Web Portal using JavaScript and Python CGI

Here, I created a Web Portal for our popular friend docker while learning JavaScript. This is my first hands-on project using JavaScript. Let’s have a look at it !!

For the backend, we would be using the PythonCGI. We are going to take the input from the client (from the web portal) & the code runs particular docker commands and gives the output back to JS functions that display it on the webpage.

My website is running in a Apache webserver on RHEL8. So all these files are present in the /var/www/html folder.

Let us have a look at a JS function.

Here XMLHttpRequest() function is used which can send and get result over http requests.
.send() function sends the request to the given URL — which is a CGI code.
.onload() gets the data and I am presenting it in the alert dialog.

The backend files are present in the /var/www/cgi-bin folder. These files run the backend docker commands that give output back on the screen.

All CGI Codes

Features of the Website:

1. Launch a Container
2. Stop a Container
3. Remove a Container
4. List all available images
5. List all containers with status
6. A Scale to keep a track of how many containers are launched on the server!

Video Demo

Do watch this short 2 min video

Wait for the Docker to move on the scale 😉.

This project is done along with Daksh Jain.
Do share your views. You could reach me out on LinkedIn.

Khushi Thareja - DevOps Engineer - Capital Setu | LinkedIn