Development Environment Manager

Main features:

• Persist installed packages, configuration and bash history for later.
• Automatically mount your project into the environment.
• Automatically discover previously built/modified enviroments (based on project path)
• Specify what base docker image to build environments on top off..

Quickstart

1. Clone this repository and run

make install

2. Go to the root directory of your project and run

devenv shell

3. PROFIT!

Usage

All of the below assumes you to be located in your project directory. devenv bases all of its assumptions on where you are located on a file-system level.

Build

Note: All options accepted by build are also applicable to shell

Specify your own base image.

By default, devenv ships using the centos:6 docker image as a base image. This can be overridden via the command line:

devenv build --verbose --base_image=python:37

Any subsequent devenv shell commands run inside the same directory, will default to this image until devenv clean is run.

Override the default Dockerfile:

devenv build --verbose --dockerfile=./Dockerfile

Commit

After you have exited an environment, you can commit whatever you did while inside the environment to a Docker image:

devenv commit

Cleanup

devenv clean

Shell

Note: All options accepted by build are also applicable to shell

devenv shell

Override base-image

Start shell in docker container based off ubuntu - rather than the default centos.

devenv shell --verbose --base_image=ubuntu:latest 

User-defined volume mounts:

devenv shell --volume=/tmp:/tmp --volume ~.aws:/root/.aws

User-defined volume mount to an existing environment:

Docker does not allow new volumes to be mounted on existing containers. To circumvent this limitation, the -—new option causes the following to be performed:

1. commit the existing environment container to a new image (overwriting any previous image)
2. delete the existing container
3. recreate the container (based on the image from step #1) with the new volume mounts.

This allows us to specify new volumes for an existing environment.

Note: Existing volume mounts need to be re-specified when invoking --new

devenv shell --new --volume=/tmp:/tmp --volume ~.aws:/root/.aws --volume /var/log:/var/log

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome.