A Docker container that runs Heroku-like slugs produced by slugbuilder.
It takes a gzipped tarball of a "compiled" application via stdin or from a URL, letting you run a command in that application environment, or start a process defined in the application Procfile.
First, you need Docker. Then you can either pull the image from the public index:
$ docker pull flynn/slugrunner
Or you can build from this source:
$ cd slugrunner
$ make
When you run the container, it always expects an app slug to be passed via stdin or by giving it a URL using the SLUG_URL environment variable. Lets run a Rake task that our app uses, attaching to stdout:
$ cat myslug.tgz | docker run -i -a stdin -a stdout flynn/slugrunner rake mytask
We can also load slugs using the SLUG_URL environment variable. This is currently the only way to run interactively, for example running Bash:
$ docker run -e SLUG_URL=http://example.com/slug.tgz -i -t flynn/slugrunner /bin/bash
Commands are run in the application environment, in the root directory of the application, with any default environment variables, and scripts sourced from .profile.d of the application.
Lastly there is a start command that will run any of the process types defined in the Procfile of the app, or of the default process types defined by the buildpack that built the app. For example, here we can start the web process:
$ cat myslug.tgz | docker run -i -a stdin -a stdout -a stderr flynn/slugrunner start web
The runner can also register with go-discover based service discovery using sdutil. If $SD_NAME and $PORT environment variables are set, the command is run with sdutil exec $SD_NAME:$PORT. $SD_NAME is unset before the command is run, but $PORT is left set since it is often used without service discovery.
It is also possible to fully customize the command line for sdutil tool using $SD_ARGS.
The Docker image here is based on cedarish, an image that emulates the Heroku Cedar stack environment. App slugs should include everything they need to run, but if something is missing it should be added upstream to cedarish.
BSD
Flynn is a modular, open source Platform as a Service (PaaS).
If you're new to Flynn, start here.
Flynn is in active development and currently unsuitable for production use.
Users are encouraged to experiment with Flynn but should assume there are stability, security, and performance weaknesses throughout the project. This warning will be removed when Flynn is ready for production use.
Please report bugs as issues on the appropriate repository. If you have a general question or don't know which repo to use, report them here.
We welcome and encourage community contributions to Flynn.
Since the project is still unstable, there are specific priorities for development. Pull requests that do not address these priorities will not be accepted until Flynn is production ready.
Please familiarize yourself with the Contribution Guidelines and Project Roadmap before contributing.
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- Fix bugs or file issues
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