--- title: mddanish/VaultOS: VaultOS is a terminal-based user... description: VaultOS is a Python-based terminal UI tool for managing ephemeral or persistent Linux desktop containers via Docker. It provides a creation wizard supporting... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/1ffodjkke twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: mddanish/VaultOS: VaultOS is a terminal-based user interface (TUI) for managing "Desktop" Docker containers. | daily.dev og:description: VaultOS is a Python-based terminal UI tool for managing ephemeral or persistent Linux desktop containers via Docker. It provides a creation wizard supporting... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/1ffodjkke og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1fFodJKkE.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # mddanish/VaultOS: VaultOS is a terminal-based user interface (TUI) for managing "Desktop" Docker containers. **[Daily Open Source Tools](https://daily.dev/sources/dailyopensourcetools)** · [@serdarbuyukdereli](https://daily.dev/serdarbuyukdereli) · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary VaultOS is a Python-based terminal UI tool for managing ephemeral or persistent Linux desktop containers via Docker. It provides a creation wizard supporting multiple distributions (Alpine, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch) and desktop environments (XFCE, KDE, MATE, i3), accessible through a web browser. Features include real-time dashboards, auto-expiry timers for disposable environments, custom user configuration, and home directory mapping. Designed as a lightweight CLI alternative to enterprise solutions like KASM Workspaces, it requires Docker and Python 3.9+, with containers limited to 2 CPU cores and 1GB RAM by default. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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