In active development, generally working. Supports both version 1 and version 2 dServices.

dRunner is a stand-alone executable and a set of conventions to make it easy to make, install, configure and use compatible Docker containers ("dServices") on a Debian Jessie host via the command line interface.

dRunner eliminates the need to manually store and manage scripts to use the Docker containers, or type in long docker run commands. It also provides a configurable way (per host) to bring up services that consist of multiple Docker containers.

• dRunner compatible Docker Images are self contained - everything dRunner needs is inside
• Simple discoverable commands for using compatible services (no manual needed)
• Flexible configuration for each service, stored in Docker Volume containers that are managed for you
• Services can consist of any number of containers
• Backup an entire service to a single file, trivially restore on another machine
• Destroying a service leaves the machine in a clean state, no cruft left
• Everything in containers is run as a non-root user, drunner on host runs as non-root
• Trivial to install a service multiple times with different configurations (e.g. mulitple minecraft servers)
• Ansible friendly for automation (see Exit Codes below).
• Small footprint: everything dRunner creates on the host is contained in one folder of your choice (apart from Docker Volumes).
• Tools to build dServices and test them.

We assume here you have a standard user account called testuser which you'll use for drunner.

dRunner needs docker. You can install it as root with:

wget -nv https://drunner.s3.amazonaws.com/install_docker.sh
bash install_docker.sh

Then give the user you'll run dServices with (e.g. testuser) permissions to run docker with:

adduser testuser docker

Logged in as the non-root user, download the installer and run it:

wget https://drunner.s3.amazonaws.com/drunner-install
chmod a+x drunner-install
drunner-install -v ~/drunner

Log out then in again to pick up the ~/bin directory in your path, then you can run drunner. E.g. try

 drunner install drunner/helloworld
 helloworld run

helloworld is now in your path, you can run it directly, e.g. with no arguments to see the help.

Back up helloworld to an encrypted archive (including all settings and local data), then obliterate it, leaving the machine clean:

PASS=shh drunner backup helloworld hw.b
drunner obliterate helloworld

Restore the backup as hithere, and run it:

PASS=shh drrunner restore hw.b hi
hi run

dRunner can test containers for compatibility and functionality. Try it out with:

drunner install drunner/dtest
dtest test drunner/helloworld

Other images to try:

• minecraft - really easy minecraft server.
• simplesecrets - store low security secrets in S3.

Install a container (e.g. from DockerHub) that supports dr and call the service 'SERVICENAME'.

drunner install IMAGENAME SERVICENAME

Manage that service:

SERVICENAME COMMAND ARGS

The available COMMANDs depend on the service; they can be things like run and configure. You can get help on the service which also lists the available COMMANDs with

SERVICENAME

Other commands that work on all services:

drunner obliterate SERVICENAME                 -- uninstalls service and removes ALL data! Leaves host in clean state.
drunner update SERVICENAME                     -- update service scripts from container (and docker pull)

PASS=? drunner backup SERVICENAME BACKUPFILE   -- backup container, configuration and local data.
PASS=? drunner restore BACKUPFILE SERVICENAME  -- restore container, configuration and local data.

dRunner provides several flags to control the output mode:

In addition, you can specify -d for 'development mode', which currently just skips any explicit docker pulls.

The convention for exit codes is:

This is to aid Ansible use.

See Docker's Security Statement for information on security and docker.

To see how to make a dService read the documentation.

As root:

wget -nv https://drunner.s3.amazonaws.com/install_docker.sh
bash install_docker.sh
apt-get install build-essential g++-multilib libboost-all-dev libyaml-cpp-dev
adduser devuser docker

As devuser:

git clone git@github.com:drunner/drunner.git
make