ctop VS godotenv

Compare ctop vs godotenv and see what are their differences.

godotenv

A Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env files) (by joho)
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ctop godotenv
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0.0 3.7
6 months ago about 1 month ago
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MIT License MIT License
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ctop

Posts with mentions or reviews of ctop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-18.
  • Lazydocker
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jul 2023
    This does remind me of ctop as well: https://github.com/bcicen/ctop

    It also let's you look at containers, resource usage graphs, their logs and even do some actions through a TUI.

  • Portainer Business Edition 5 free nodes plan will change to 3 nodes in the future.
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 7 Jul 2023
    ssh, nnn, micro and ctop is all I need on my dockerhosts
  • Ctop – Top-like interface for container metrics
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2023
  • Found an amazingly handy terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose. Have actually just added the bin to my git repo with all my compose files. Great for a quick look at what is going on host machines.
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 8 Apr 2023
    My problem with ctop is, that it seems to show wrong memory usage data: https://github.com/bcicen/ctop/issues/314
  • FLaNK Stack Weekly 3 April 2023
    39 projects | dev.to | 3 Apr 2023
  • Portainer Alternatives?
    7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 20 Mar 2023
    When talk about interface and cli... I am a huge fan of ctop
  • What do you think about Portainer?
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 10 Mar 2023
    You can use CTOP. It's like a lite portainer on CLI. You can check logs, stats, restart containers.
  • Ask HN: What is the best source to learn Docker in 2023?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jan 2023
    In the terminal, there are also a few useful projects:

      - for Docker, there is ctop: https://github.com/bcicen/ctop
  • Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2023
    > I tried portainer, awful UX experience and all good features are inside paid version.

    This is interesting to me, because it doesn't quite match my experience - I've been using Portainer for around 3 years at this point and it's been pretty decent.

    The worst issues that I've gotten is networking issues in some hybrid configurations with Docker Swarm (e.g. Portainer cannot reach the manager node of the cluster for a bit), or troubles configuring Traefik ingresses when managing Kubernetes (though I think the recent patch notes talked about improving the ingress section, so maybe the experience will get better with non-Nginx ingresses).

    Other than that, it's been great for onboarding new people, illustrating the cluster state at a glance, easily operating with stacks and scaling/restarting services as needed, including pulling new images, viewing the logs or even connecting to containers through a web UI if need be. The webhook functionality in particular is really nice - you can just do a curl request against a given URL and that will pull the new container versions for the given image and do a redeploy, which works nicely with a variety of CI solutions.

    When I last tried, initializing Nomad clusters with networking encryption was a bit less of a smooth experience (needing to essentially manage your own PKI) and the web UI felt more like a dashboard, instead of something that you could click around in, if you're a proponent of that workflow.

    Rancher is probably better than both of those options, though there's a certain overhead in regards to running both that software and a full Kubernetes cluster. If Kubernetes feels like a good fit for a particular project and resources aren't an issue, definitely check it out! You can, of course, also have some success with lightweight clusters, like K3s: https://k3s.io/

    I'll definitely agree that Lazydocker is a nice tool, but I wouldn't call it superior, just different (TUI vs GUI), their demo video is nice though: https://youtu.be/NICqQPxwJWw

    It actually reminds me of ctop, which you might also want to check out, though it's not something that you'd manage clusters in, merely the individual containers on a node (which won't always be enough, same as Docker Compose isn't): https://github.com/bcicen/ctop

    Regardless, for Kubernetes, I'm inclined to say that you'd enjoy k9s a bunch then, it has a similar TUI approach: https://k9scli.io/

  • Looking for a simple Docker dashboard
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 29 Nov 2022
    However, something like ctop may be easier to use.

godotenv

Posts with mentions or reviews of godotenv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-05.
  • Autenticação com Golang e AWS Cognito
    4 projects | dev.to | 5 Feb 2024
    Primeiro vamos carregar nossas envs com o pacote godotenv, depois iniciamos nosso cognito client, passando o COGNITO_CLIENT_ID, que pegamos anteriormente, depois iniciamos o gin e criamos um server, isso é o suficiente.
  • Tools besides Go for a newbie
    36 projects | /r/golang | 26 Mar 2023
    IDE: use whatever make you productive. I personally use vscode. VCS: git, as golang communities use github heavily as base for many libraries. AFAIK Linter: use staticcheck for linting as it looks like mostly used linting tool in go, supported by many also. In Vscode it will be recommended once you install go plugin. Libraries/Framework: actually the standard libraries already included many things you need, decent enough for your day-to-day development cycles(e.g. `net/http`). But here are things for extra: - Struct fields validator: validator - Http server lib: chi router , httprouter , fasthttp (for non standard http implementations, but fast) - Web Framework: echo , gin , fiber , beego , etc - Http client lib: most already covered by stdlib(net/http), so you rarely need extra lib for this, but if you really need some are: resty - CLI: cobra - Config: godotenv , viper - DB Drivers: sqlx , postgre , sqlite , mysql - nosql: redis , mongodb , elasticsearch - ORM: gorm , entgo , sqlc(codegen) - JS Transpiler: gopherjs - GUI: fyne - grpc: grpc - logging: zerolog - test: testify , gomock , dockertest - and many others you can find here
  • Reading Environment Variable from a .env file on a Server
    1 project | /r/golang | 21 Jan 2023
    In his code it is done using https://github.com/joho/godotenv
  • Libraries you use most of your projects?
    30 projects | /r/golang | 2 Nov 2022
  • Restful API with Golang practical approach
    9 projects | dev.to | 17 Oct 2022
    envconfig: Library for managing configuration data from environment variables (https://github.com/joho/godotenv)
  • Is this clear why its useful?
    3 projects | /r/golang | 11 Oct 2022
    There is already a more complete, safer and neatly written godotenv alternative. It may be taken as an educational inspiration for next attempts.
  • I need some help setting up variables for the sake of my sanity
    1 project | /r/golang | 4 May 2022
    Chances are you are going to set them in you real server, and most likely you will going to use Linux for that. So for local development create a .env file with those in there. And at the start of you program, load them. You can use https://github.com/joho/godotenv Don’t share that file of course, and don’t put it in git.
  • How can I "source" a bash script?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 25 Feb 2022
    Maybe https://github.com/joho/godotenv can help
  • passwords, secrets, keys - best practice
    5 projects | /r/golang | 23 Feb 2022
    joho/godotenv
  • I'm looking for a good alternativ to Viper
    12 projects | /r/golang | 16 Jan 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ctop and godotenv you can also consider the following projects:

Plausible Analytics - Simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.

viper - Go configuration with fangs

colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

gotenv - Load environment variables from `.env` or `io.Reader` in Go.

go-dry - DRY (don't repeat yourself) package for Go

structs - Golang struct operations.

minify - Go minifiers for web formats

xferspdy - Xferspdy provides binary diff and patch library in golang. [Mentioned in Awesome Go, https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go]

csvtk - A cross-platform, efficient and practical CSV/TSV toolkit in Golang

delve - Delve is a debugger for the Go programming language.

git-time-metric - Simple, seamless, lightweight time tracking for Git

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder