• argon
  • features
    • argon-micro
    • argon-micro-dotnet
    • argon-micro-terraform
    • argon
    • argon-dotnet
  • manifesto
  • host requirements
  • how to
    • start
    • stop
    • customisation
      • ARG
      • volumes
  • resources

argon

Minimal development environment.

Build and run your code in a container exposing an interactive zsh shell. It looks like your regular shell, but everything is installed and running in a docker container. When you're done, simply exit argon shell to get back to your regular shell.

features

Argon supports two types of cpu architectures:

• arm64

• amd64

argon-micro

Only core features of base argon:

• alpine 3.20.2 base

• zsh + oh my zsh

• git

• openssh

• curl

argon-micro-dotnet

Dotnet development support.

• argon-micro

• .net 8.0 sdk as an apk package

argon-micro-terraform

Terraform + aws development support. This environment comes with a lower base version of alpine as the terraform package is no longer included in alpine 2.19+. Host aws credentials are shared with the development environment container.

• argon-micro

• terraform

• aws cli

argon

A more fleshed out base version of argon - just basic documentation-writing tools.

• argon-micro

• markdown

  • pandoc

  • mermaid

  • pdflatex (via texlive)

  • marp

argon-dotnet

Dotnet development support.

• argon

• .net 8.0 sdk as an apk package

manifesto

• *lean and **quiet development environment

• take your development environment anywhere

• low expectations from your text editor - keep it:

  • vanilla

  • removed from the equation

• reuse host's ssh keys

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• *lean - minimal number of unused components

• **quiet - minimal number of errors

host requirements

• docker

how to

start

• ./[argon type here*]/host.sh - starts the development environment

*where argon type is argon micro, argon, argon-dotnet, etc...

stop

exit

customisation

ARG

• $USER_NAME - controls the name of the default account controlling the development environment. Possible values:

  • root - default value, root will be the default user acount

  • [any other value] - will result in creating argon-development-group group and a non-root default member account named [any other value]

volumes

• $CERTIFICATE_DIRECTORY - host's .ssh directory. This is useful for upstream git operations.

resources

• text to ascii art generator

• github wiki toc generator