Mutagen docker stack command

[matthew-gill]

Hey @havoc-io I've created this:
https://github.com/matthew-gill/mutagen-stack

Which creates a command to handle mutagen stacks including clean up of both docker-compose and mutagen sessions.

It's designed to only work with one mutagen session, but should be relatively easy to extend.

This is just for your perusal, I don't claim to be an expert in bash etc, but I've been using this for a few days and have found it useful...

[xenoscopic]

That's awesome! Seriously, thanks so much! This is exactly the sort of prototyping I was hoping would happen. As of November 1st I'll be switching to Mutagen work full-time (at least for the next few months), and one of my priorities will be adding a "plumbing" interface to Mutagen so that it's more script-friendly.

I'm looking forward to playing with this tool. I'm not a container orchestration expert, but hopefully this'll help me identify some of the pain points (and opportunities) with integration.

[matthew-gill]

No problem :)
The rest of the team I work with are slowly starting to switch to docker and mutagen so seriously looking forward to what comes next!

The design was heavily influenced by docker-sync-stack

My vote goes (at least for local development) to focus on integrating with docker-compose. Some sort of roadmap of what you're planning on releasing would also be greatly appreciated if you have the time!

[xenoscopic]

That's so cool to hear! I think the picture is becoming a little bit clearer in terms of what Docker support needs to look like and enable. I think big improvements will be in store in the next month. I'll keep you up-to-date.

[Toilal]

I wrote a python application mutagen-helper, just released today, that wraps mutagen binary and can help to manage your sessions.

Put configuration in a yaml file in a directory to sync, and run mutagen-helper up / mutagen-helper down to create / terminate sessions.

It should really help to manage multiple projects, with one or many sessions per project. In my case, I will drop a single session containing about 20 projects to enable/disable sessions as needed to solve performance issues.

[xenoscopic]

Hey @matthew-gill, you might have a look at the new label/selector support in Mutagen v0.9.0-beta2 — it might make the implementation of your project a little simpler. It's designed to be compatible with the syntax that Kubernetes uses (since it actually re-uses the Kubernetes label/selector implementation). It might make scripting significantly easier.

There are also new -c/--configuration and --no-global-configuration flags documented in the release notes that might be useful for tools scripting Mutagen.

I'm going to close out this issue just to keep the issue tracker tidy, but it doesn't mean the discussion can't continue. Thanks again for your efforts!