lavie/runlike

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

runlike is a Python CLI tool that inspects an existing Docker container and prints the `docker run` command line needed to recreate a copy of it, including ports, volumes, links, and environment variables. It can also accept `docker inspect` output via stdin and is available as a pip package or a Docker image.

Use cases

• reconstruct the docker run command for an existing container
• migrate a container to another host without the original launch command
• document how a container deployed by Ansible or Chef was started
• quickly clone a running container with the same options
• convert docker inspect output into a readable docker run command

When to choose

• you lost or never had the original docker run command for a container
• you need to manually re-run a container that was deployed by a configuration management tool
• you want a quick, human-readable summary of a container's run options

When to avoid

• you need guaranteed production-grade accuracy - the README warns against production use
• your container uses docker run options not yet supported by the tool
• you manage containers with Compose, Kubernetes, or other declarative tooling that already captures the configuration

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

developer-tools cli container-runtime configuration-management developer-tools python cli docker-inspect docker-run reverse-engineering container-migration containers devops command-line linux macos docker

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