🪆 Matryoshka

Autoinstall and run a Linux environment on your Mac with one command in less than 45 secs.

I'm starting ft_transcendence and Docker does not work anymore on 42 Madrid, so this image has been made as a workaround to get docker running painlessly.

Installation

Install VirtualBox
Run this command on your terminal:

    bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pruiz-ca/matryoshka/main/install.sh)"

Usage

After installing, reload your terminal and run matryohska to see what commands are available. Available commands:

run: starts matryoshka
stop: stops the VM running in the background
clean: removes ONLY the VM files, not matryoshka
update: updates matryoshka
reset: same as performing clean && run
uninstall: removes ALL associated files (matryoshka and VM)

Tweak

You can change some settings editting ~/.matryoshkarc. There are some commentary but right now you can change:

PACKAGES: all your packages to be installed when run for the first time. Separated by spaces.
NORMINETTE: true if you want norminette to be installed or false otherwise.
PARTITION SIZE: there are two editable values. Partition size if you are in 42 iMacs or partition size if you are on another computer. The VM is installed in /goinfreso you can afford to make it bigger than your needs.

Features

From 0 to Linux with one command and 45 seconds.
Mounts your Mac home automatically and cd to your current directory. Files are shared so everything you modify through this linux VM will affect your real files in real time and viceversa.
Uses goinfre if using it in 42, otherwise uses VBox default folder
Edit which packages you want to install by default
Autoexpands the VM disk to your desired partition size. If you are in 42 the default size is 20gb, if not 8gb.
Uses Alpine Linux because of its low weight
Defaults ssh to localhost port 42

Why use this?

You need a linux environment to try your projects
fsanitize on linux
valgrind
Can't use docker on your campus