• argon
  • features
    • 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

• arm64

• amd64

argon

A minimal, base version of argon - just basic documentation-writing tools.

• alpine 3.20 base

• zsh + oh my zsh

• markdown

  • pandoc

  • mermaid

  • pdflatex (via texlive)

  • marp

dotnet

Dotnet development support.

• core 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/host.sh - core argon

• ./argon-dotnet/host.sh - core argon + dotnet 8 sdk

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