Asink is command line tool that harnesses the functionality from libasink to help you create and automate tasks.

What can it be used for? Loads! You could configure and deploy a project, build / install software from source, provision a machine, run one task lots and lots of times, check up on the status of a remote machine and anything you find yourself doing manually time and time again.

Features

• Written in Go
• Can automate SSH sessions
• Very simple to get started with
• Excellent speed and performance
• Client libraries and support for other languages

New in v0.1.1

The main focus for v0.1.1 was to have a complete rewrite of the public Go API that Asink has internally depended on since the project started. This has since been moved over to asink/libasink and development will continue on both the independant package and this command line tool.

Getting Started

Building from source requires:

• Go >= v1.2
• Git
• Make

$ git clone https://github.com/GroundSix/asink.git
$ cd asink
$ export GOPATH=$PWD/vendor
$ make
$ sudo make install

Alternativly Asink can be built using Docker:

$ git clone https://github.com/GroundSix/asink.git
$ cd asink
$ docker build -t asink .
$ ./build.sh

Run asink version to check the install, or asink help to see a full list of commands.

Configuring

Asink can be configured to run your tasks using either YAML or JSON. Here is a small Hello World example:

---
tasks:

  # All tasks are named
  # You can name them whatever you like
  hello-world:

    # Define the root command
    command: echo

    # And any args and / or flags here
    args:
      - 'Hello, World!'

And then once we are all configured, running is as simple as this:

$ asink run config.yml

You can find more information and examples on the wiki.

License

GNU GPL v2.0