Dockerized

Run popular commandline tools without installing them.

dockerized <command>

Supported commands

If your favorite command is not included, it can be added very easily. See Add a command.

Web Development
- http
- jq
- protoc
- swagger-codegen
- wget
Git
- gh
Cloud
- aws
- doctl
- s3cmd
Docker
- helm
SDKs
- go
- dotnet
Node
- node
- npm
- npx
- tsc
- vue
- yarn
Python
- pip
- python
- python2
Unix
- tree

Installation

Install Docker
Clone this repo anywhere: git clone git@github.com:datastack-net/dockerized.git
Add the bin directory to your path

Usage

Run any supported command, but within Docker.

dockerized <command>

Examples:

dockerized node --version             # v16.13.0
dockerized vue create new-project     # create a project with vue cli
dockerized tsc --init                 # initialize typescript for the current directory
dockerized npm install                # install packages.json

Use Cases

Quickly try out command line tools without the effort of downloading and installing them.
Installing multiple versions of node/python/typescript.
You need unix commands on Windows.
You don't want to pollute your system with a lot of tools you don't use.
Easily update your tools.
Ensure everyone on the team is using the same version of commandline tools.

Design Goals

All commands work out of the box.
Dockerized commands behave the same as their native counterparts.
- Files in the current directory are accessible using relative paths.
Cross-platform: Works on Linux, MacOS, and Windows (CMD, Powershell, Git Bash).
Suitable for ad-hoc usage (i.e. you quickly need to run a command, that is not on your system).
Configurability: for use within a project or CI/CD pipeline.

Switching command versions

Each command has a <COMMAND>_VERSION environment variable which you can override.

python: PYTHON_VERSION
node: NODE_VERSION
tsc: TSC_VERSION

Notes:

Versions of some commands are determined by other commands.
For example, to configure the version of npm, you should override NODE_VERSION.
See dockerized.env for a list of configurable versions.

Global

Create a dockerized.env file in your home directory for global configuration.

# dockerized.env (example)
NODE_VERSION=16.13.0
PYTHON_VERSION=3.8.5
TYPESCRIPT_VERSION=4.6.2

List of configuration variables, and defaults:
- dockerized.env

Per directory

You can also specify version and other settings per directory. This allows you to "lock" your tools to specific versions for your project.

Create a dockerized.env file in your project directory.
All commands executed within this directory will use the settings specified in this file.

Ad-hoc (Unix)

Override the environment variable before the command, to specify the version for that command.
```
NODE_VERSION=15.0.0 dockerized node
```

Ad-hoc (Windows Command Prompt)

Set the environment variable in the current session, before the command.
```
set NODE_VERSION=15.0.0
dockerized node
```

Ad-hoc (Windows Powershell)

It's currently not known how to specify the version of a command in a Powershell script through environment variables.

As an alternative, you can create a dockerized.env file in the current directory.

Limitations

It's not currently possible to access parent directories. (i.e. dockerized tree ../dir will not work)
- Workaround: Execute the command from the parent directory. (i.e. cd .. && dockerized tree dir)
Commands will not persist changes outside the working directory, unless specifically supported by dockerized.

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