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Organise your Docker containers with muscle and intelligence.

Why?

Percheron aims to address the following challenges when working with Docker images and containers:

  • Managing multiple containers and mutiple sets (stacks) of containers
  • Building images and containers with support for dependencies
  • Versioning of images and containers

Percheron is like Vagrant but instead of managing VM's, it manages Docker images and containers. It is a very handy tool when you wish to create a basic or complex stack without the need to run multiple VMs.

It is intended to be used in a test, development or prototyping scenario.

Features

  • Single, easy to write .percheron.yml describes your stack(s)
  • Build, create and start units and their dependencies
  • Build units using a Dockerfile or by pulling Docker images from Docker Hub
  • Build 'bare/base' images and build new images on top of them
  • Support for pre-build and post-start scripts when generating images and starting units
  • Version control of images and units
  • Partial template (liquid) support within .percheron.yml
  • Generate Graphviz dependency graphs dynamically based purely on your .percheron.yml
  • Support for userdata key/value pairs
  • Support for secrets in YML format
  • Written in Ruby :)

Supported platforms

  • Linux
  • MacOS 10.9+

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'percheron'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install percheron

Requirements

Usage

Usage:
    percheron [OPTIONS] SUBCOMMAND [ARG] ...

Parameters:
    SUBCOMMAND                    subcommand
    [ARG] ...                     subcommand arguments

Subcommands:
    list, status                  List stacks and its units
    start                         Start a stack
    stop                          Stop a stack
    restart                       Restart a stack
    build, rebuild                (Re)build image(s) for a stack
    create, recreate              (Re)build image(s) and (re)create units for a stack
    purge                         Purge a stack
    shell                         Shell into a unit
    logs                          Show logs for a unit
    graph                         Generate a stack graph

Options:
    -h, --help                    print help
    -c, --config_file CONFIG      Config file (default: ".percheron.yml")
    --version                     show versionn

Demo (using boot2docker)

  1. Get boot2docker up and running

Follow the directions at https://docs.docker.com/installation

boot2docker up && eval $(boot2docker shellinit) && export BOOT2DOCKER_IP=$(boot2docker ip)
  1. Install percheron
gem install percheron
  1. Create a .percheron.yml file describing the stack, in this case consul:
---
stacks:
  - name: consul-stack
    description: A demo consul stack with one master and two agents
    units:
      - name: master
        version: 1.0.0
        docker_image: gliderlabs/consul-server:0.5
        start_args: [ "-bootstrap", "-client", "0.0.0.0", "-data-dir", "/data", "-ui-dir", "/ui" ]
        ports:
          - "8500:8500"
          - "8600:53/udp"
      - name: agent
        version: 1.0.0
        instances: 2
        docker_image: gliderlabs/consul-agent:0.5
        start_args: [ "-join", "master" ]
        needed_unit_names:
          - master
  1. Start it up!
percheron start consul-stack

I, [2015-08-06T22:36:46.536424 #45026]  INFO -- : Creating 'consul-stack:master' unit
I, [2015-08-06T22:36:46.851682 #45026]  INFO -- : Starting 'consul-stack:master' unit
I, [2015-08-06T22:36:47.861800 #45026]  INFO -- : Creating 'consul-stack:agent1' unit
I, [2015-08-06T22:36:48.221852 #45026]  INFO -- : Starting 'consul-stack:agent1' unit
I, [2015-08-06T22:36:48.929909 #45026]  INFO -- : Creating 'consul-stack:agent2' unit
I, [2015-08-06T22:36:49.378310 #45026]  INFO -- : Starting 'consul-stack:agent2' unit
  1. Show the status
percheron status consul-stack

+--------+--------------+----------+------------+------------------------+---------+---------+
|                                        consul-stack                                        |
+--------+--------------+----------+------------+------------------------+---------+---------+
| Unit   | ID           | Running? | IP         | Ports                  | Volumes | Version |
+--------+--------------+----------+------------+------------------------+---------+---------+
| master | 0acd1e2cfbc0 | yes      | 172.17.0.1 | 8500:8500, 8600:53/udp |         | 1.0.0   |
| agent1 | d70495c1c62b | yes      | 172.17.0.2 |                        |         | 1.0.0   |
| agent2 | 458ad3ba0890 | yes      | 172.17.0.3 |                        |         | 1.0.0   |
+--------+--------------+----------+------------+------------------------+---------+---------+
  1. Ensure consul is running
curl http://${BOOT2DOCKER_IP}:8500/v1/catalog/nodes

[{"Node":"agent1","Address":"172.17.0.5"},{"Node":"agent2","Address":"172.17.0.6"},{"Node":"master","Address":"172.17.0.4"}]
  1. Perform some DNS lookups using consul
dig @${BOOT2DOCKER_IP} -p 8600 master.node.consul agent1.node.consul agent2.node.consul +short

172.17.0.7
172.17.0.8
172.17.0.9
  1. Bring up the consul UI
open http://${BOOT2DOCKER_IP}:8500/ui
  1. Purge it!
percheron purge consul-stack

I, [2015-05-21T19:28:23.925205 #35710]  INFO -- : Stopping 'agent2' unit
I, [2015-05-21T19:28:24.269218 #35710]  INFO -- : Deleting 'agent2' unit
I, [2015-05-21T19:28:24.452320 #35710]  INFO -- : Stopping 'agent1' unit
I, [2015-05-21T19:28:24.811764 #35710]  INFO -- : Deleting 'agent1' unit
I, [2015-05-21T19:28:24.965680 #35710]  INFO -- : Stopping 'master' unit
I, [2015-05-21T19:28:25.246578 #35710]  INFO -- : Deleting 'master' unit

Dependency graph

Note: Requires Graphviz installed.

percheron graph consul-stack

consul-stack

Debugging

To perform debugging you will need to install the pry-byebug gem:

gem install pry-byebug

To debug Percheron, set the DEBUG=true environment variable.

To debug Percheron and Docker, set the DOCKER_DEBUG=true environment variable.

Examples

  • consul - consul server + UI and two agents
  • Rails - Rails 4.2, PostgreSQL, redis, HAProxy and postfix
  • Redis - Redis cluster + sentinel, master, two slaves and tools
  • Torrent - Tracker (chihaya), seeder (aria2) and three peers (aria2)
  • SaltStack - SaltStack with master and two minions

Testing

All (cane, RuboCop, unit and integration):

bundle exec rake test

Style (cane and RuboCop):

bundle exec rake test:style

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/ashmckenzie/percheron/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Run bundle exec rake test
  5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  6. Create a new Pull Request

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