mk: Bash-based Automation Tool

Features

• Bash as a language
• Shared context
• Target is defined as a bash function
• Targets can depend on others
• Multiple targets can be invoked
• Autocompletion support

Demo

demo is outdated, acutal name is ``mk``, not ``makeit``

Getting Started

1. Enable autocompletion

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ilya-bystrov/mk/master/completions/mk_completions -O - >> ~/.bash_completion
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ilya-bystrov/mk/master/completions/mk_alias -O - >> ~/.bash_completion

2. Use template

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ilya-bystrov/mk/master/mk
$ chmod u+x mk
$ mk <Tab>
bye hello
$ mk hello
Hello, World!
$ mk bye
bye-bye.

3. Customize mk for your own needs

Concept

• The key idea is iterating through arguments that corresponds to function names and invoking this functions
• Use the template
  • By default
    • /usr/bin/env bash shebang
    • errexit, pipefail, nounset bash options
• Or build your own

Example

docker-container-management

Requires docker installed

$ cd mk/examples/docker-container-management/mk
$ mk build  # build 'someimage' docker image based on 'busybox'
$ mk run    # run 'someimage' image inside 'somecontainer' container
$ mk rm     # remove 'somecontainer' container
$ mk rmi    # remove 'someimage' image

Improvements

Feel free to suggest improvements

Motivation

Motivation is covered in my post