dtools

A modern-day era docker client with some extra features.

Empahsis here: we are talking about a cutstomized docker client. I'm nowhere close to have a docker daemon up for running.

dtools vs docker

Basically, you use dtools as you use docker. What is more obvious is that the output is a bit changed from the official docker client, but otherwise both are similar.

Where dtools is different from docker is that some extra management commands were added here. See way below about this.

What is not in dtools

• network add is not implementing the official flags, so far (will do, eventually)
• run is not implemented. This is my next task
• TODO: add more

What is added in dtools, compared to docker

• default registry handling: the dtools repo subcommand says it all. Once you've used dtools repo add coupled with dtools login to that registry, using dtools push -d or dtools pull -d will automatically use that registry.
• some scripts I used to have at home to list docker images in my own registry, or tags for given image(s) are now part of the dtools client. See the dtools get catalog and dtools get tags subcommands

Requirements

• The foremost requirement is that you already have the docker daemon packages installed: this is needed as this software needs Docker API v1.43 to run
• no other requirements, so far

(the Docker API requirement is a variable in src/main.go, this will be fixed in an ulterior version -- see FIXME-ROADMAP-TODO.md)

Installing...

Building from source

• Clone the repo
• Switch to the src/ directory
• Run ./upgrade_pkgs.sh
• Run ./build.sh (have a look at the script to see offered options)

Using the binary packages

Under the Releases link you should find Alpine (APK), RedHat-based (RPM) and Debian-based (DEB) packages.

A note about building packages

The following directories are used in my own CI-CD chain at home:

• .tito
• __debian
• __alpine
• files rpmbuild-deps.sh and dtools.spec

Eventually, I will publish the artefacts to build the containers that use those files/directories, but as of now, they are way too customized for me to publish. It's a bummer, those containers work oh-so-well ;)