I'll just go ahead and take the downvotes for suggesting that people who want to use Linux-technology, like Docker, within their OS should just use Linux as their OS.<p>Yeah. Call me crazy, but I honestly think that makes a whole lot of sense.
This landing page fails the "what is it?" test. Seems like I might want this since it involves Docker and Macs, but I still don't know what it is. Yes, there's a video, but you should not have to watch a video to know what something is; worse still, the video doesn't even tell you what Kitematic <i>is</i> – it just tells you that it "helps you get started with Docker". Ok...
I tried Kitematic briefly and it seemed fairly buggy. I also was getting some kind of conflict between it and the command line tools with boot2docker. I just stopped using it and moved straight to boot2docker.<p>Your other options on Mac are Vagrant's docker provider -- which is nice, but I agree in general with the sentiment that it is even nicer to just use Linux natively.
I wanted to use Kitematic as a way to get our non-CLI savvy designers up and running with our software stack on docker. They key feature missing IMO is the ability to "open" a docker-compose.yml file.<p>I want the ability for a designer to select "file open" and then select the docker-compose.yml file to "launch" our stack.<p>Without that, it seems like you still need to rely on the docker-cli to build images from a Dockerfile.
Kitematic doesn't support port binding and uses random ports instead: see <a href="https://github.com/kitematic/kitematic/issues/164" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kitematic/kitematic/issues/164</a><p>I hope they will fix it soon.
I've quickly looked at the app(0.5.18), great improvements from 0.2 version! One quick feedback, you can implement in-app browser for browsing images(atm you are being kicked out of the app).