Jeeves

Jeeves is a CLI tool for running development dependencies such as MySQL, Mongo, Redis etc inside pre-configured containers using simple one-liners.

Running containers can be accessed via their exposed ports and can be paired with any other application on your system.

Starting a service such as mysql is as simple as executing jeeves start mysql and you'll never have to look back at it.

But mysql is not the only available service. A list of all the available services can be found in the data.py file.

Jeeves is heavily inspired from tighten/takeout and fhsinchy/tent projects. It is an experimental project. Hence, care should be taken if you're using it in a critical environment.

Requirements

• Python 3
• Docker

Installation

pip install git+https://github.com/fhsinchy/jeeves.git#egg=jeeves
pip freeze

Output –

jeeves==<version number>

Usage

The jeeves program has following commands:

• jeeves start <service name> - starts a container for the given service
• jeeves stop <service name> - stops and removes a container for the given service
• jeeves list - lists all running containers

All the services in jeeves utilizes volumes for persisting data, so even if you stop a service, it's data will be persisted in a volume for later usage. These volumes can listed by executing docker volume ls and can be managed like any other Docker volume.

Start a Service

The generic syntax for the start command is as follows:

jeeves start <service name>

## starts mysql and prompts you where necessary
jeeves start mysql

Start Service with Default Configuration

The --default flag for the start command can be used to skip all the prompts and start a service with default configuration

jeeves start <service name> --default

## starts mysql with the default configuration
jeeves start mysql --default

Stop a Service

The generic syntax for the stop command is as follows:

jeeves stop <service name>

## stops mysql and removes the container
## prompts you if multiple containers are found
jeeves stop mysql

## stops all mysql containers and removes them
jeeves stop mysql --all

Running Multiple Versions

Given all the services are running inside containers, you can spin up multiple versions of the same service as long as you're keeping the port different.

Run jeeves start mysql twice; the first time, use the --default flag, and the second time, put 5.7 as tag and 3307 as host port.

Now, if you run jeeves list, you'll see both services running at the same time.

CONTAINER ID    CONTAINER NAME       CONTAINER LABEL     
e26c7f47e6      priceless_euler      mysql--5.7--3308    
6cc3f50081      interesting_ptolemy  mysql--latest--3306

Container Management

Containers started by jeeves are regular containers with some pre-set configurations. So you can use regular docker commands such as ls, inspect, logs etc on them. Although jeeves comes with a list command, using the docker commands will result in more informative results. The target of jeeves is to provide plug and play containers, not to become a full-fledged docker cli.