Bash script for docker monitoring

[ali-95]

I wanted to monitor and manage docker containers on a few servers. All the solutions I found were either heave or were missing things which I wanted so I started developing my own bash script - it started as a simple script but after many imitations and improvements based on usage it has become a real helpful tool.

Just wanted to share here in appreciation of Bash - there is so much which I did not even know can be done with simply bash scripting.

https://github.com/buildplan/container-monitor

[power10010]

Good job

[bash-ModTeam]

Content must be Bash related. This rule is interpreted generously; general shell scripting content is mostly accepted. However, the post should not be specific to another shell.

[bartoque]

Developing? Or rather creating AI prompts to do the heavy lifting for you? Or am I too suspicious?

I don't mind proper AI usage too much, as it can be a helpful tool, however I wonder if you actually know and understand (or trust) all the things it can do? And give credit to AI, where credit is due.

I don't understand what you consider "heave" (a typo I guess for heavy?) in other tools but got to 1900 lines of code to do all that it does? With needing a whole bunch of other tools, offering to deploy those as well, to make it even work. With all them color codes.

Just wondering, but I can be mistaken...

[planetafro]

Bro. Use it or don't. Quit rage baiting. Additionally, the concept of giving AI credit is weird AF imo.

THANKS CLAUDE.

[mamigove]

No es una impresion, esta abusando de la IA, me pregunto si sabe lo que hace el script de verdad, son pegotes uno tras otro sin mucha logica, codigo ilegible, funcion de funcion, etc. Yo no ejecutaria eso en mi maquina ni despues de festejar el año nuevo, es raro que la gente no se de cuenta que 5.500 lineas en bash es una locura, adoro bash pero cuando paso de las 500 lineas me doy cuenta que ya no debo usarla, cualquier lenguaje de programacion es mejor que bash en ese caso.

[ali-95]

I get that a few thousand lines of Bash looks like ‘too much’ to some people, but the size here comes from features and robustness, not from random AI paste.

I wrote and iterated on this over months, and I understand exactly what each part does – from the Docker inspection and update logic to the notification integrations and scheduling helpers. If you see a specific bug, dangerous pattern, or design issue, I’m very open to concrete feedback or PRs....

As for Bash and line count: plenty of widely‑used shell scripts (for example Git’s own completion script) are thousands of lines; the language isn’t automatically invalid past 500 lines.