boots

boots - The workspace bootstrapping program

Use along with the predefined containers to get pristine workspaces powered by Docker!

Why? Because I didn't want to install all these language tools and frameworks to my machine. This post goes into some more details.

Usage

Extract/clone the repo to somewhere on your PATH so that you can run the boots Bash script. Run boots help for all available commands.

Basic Example

From the root of your code directory run boots start to launch a new container with the given Docker image. This creates a bind mount from current host directory to ~/code in the container.

boots start <image>

Once you have a container running you can look at all running containers with

boots ps

To connect a new terminal to a running container grab it's ID from boots ps and run

boots connect <container-id>

Configuration

You can have a file called .bootsrc in your code repo to avoid passing arguments to CLI. It's a shell script which is sourced and can define the following variables

BOOTS_DOCKER_IMAGE= # Docker image used by boots start
BOOTS_SHELL=        # Shell to start in the container, default is /bin/zsh