Nanobox desktop gets rid of conventional "environments", such as development and production, and creates one unified environment; a nanobox environment. Engines help nanobox create these isolated, shareable, disposable environments, ensuring that whatever environment is created with nanobox is the same no matter where it lives.
Leveraging Vagrant and Docker, nanobox creates a virtual machine and launches docker containers that represent each piece of your application. Your nanobox environment will have everything it needs to run your application. Once you are done with it, you can "throw it away", leaving your machine clean. You'll never have to worry about having the right version of a language installed or managing dependencies again.
Nanobox allows you to stop configuring environments and just code. It guarantees that any project you start will work the same for anyone else collaborating on the project. When it's time to launch the project, you'll know that your production app will work, because it already works on nanobox.
Nanobox desktop can be installed in two different ways:
- Just the nanobox desktop binary.
- The nanobox desktop installer which includes the binary and all its dependencies (Vagrant, and Virtualbox)
- Place the binary in your $PATH (ex. ~/bin) and run "chmod 755 nanobox".
- Run "which nanobox" to ensure it's accessible from your $PATH.
- Type
nanoboxto view a list of available commands.
It is highly recommended that you use git bash as your shell. Not only will this provide the git workflow you'll need for Nanobox, but it will also give the CLI what it needs for features such as tunneling and SSH access to servers.
- Place the nanobox.exe file in your $PATH (ex. C:/Windows), then you can either run it by clicking on it or using a shell.
Usage:
nanobox [flags]
nanobox [command]
Available Commands:
run Starts a nanobox, provisions the app, & runs the app's exec
dev Starts the nanobox, provisions app, & opens an interactive terminal
info Displays information about the nanobox and your app
console Opens an interactive terminal from inside your app on nanobox
destroy Destroys the nanobox
stop Suspends the nanobox
update Updates the CLI to the newest available version
update-images Updates the nanobox docker images
box Subcommands for managing the nanobox/boot2docker.box
engine Subcommands to aid in developing a custom engine
Flags:
--background[=false]: Stops nanobox from auto-suspending.
-f, --force[=false]: Forces a command to run (effects vary per command).
-v, --verbose[=false]: Increase command output from 'info' to 'debug'.
--version[=false]: Display the current version of this CLI
Additional help topics:
nanobox production
Use "nanobox [command] --help" for more information about a command.
- Usage documentation is available at nanobox.io.
- Source code documentation is available on godoc.
- Make it work on Windows
- More tests (you can never have enough!)
Contributing to nanobox desktop is easy, just follow this guide
For help using nanobox desktop or if you have any questions/suggestions, please find us on IRC (freenode) at #nanobox.
