nexus - remote program installation and control (work in progress/proof of concept)

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• nexus provides a cli and a server with dnode-interface to install, uninstall, start, stop and observe local and remote programs.
• you can install a program with git (only) by using the install with a git-url.
• running programs are monitored with mon.
• information about running programms is stored in a dirty-database.
• all the config, logs and programs live in ~/.nexus by default.
• nexus is still super-alpha (and may change a lot). you may want to checkout fleet which does similiar things differently.

install

• install node
• npm install nexus -g

example

install a program locally in ~/.nexus/apps

nexus install https://github.com/visionmedia/express

this will clone the repo into ~/.nexus/cache/<sha1(url)> and checkout the current master into ~/.nexus/apps/express. now we have to install the dependencies since nexus doesnt do anything but git-clone/checkout if there is no nexus.json in the root-directory of the repository.

nexus exec express -- npm install

install another version of the program, the name will be express_1 to avoid name-collision with the other program. now it will fetch/update the local cache of the repository and clone from that to save time:

nexus install https://github.com/visionmedia/express#2.5.11
nexus exec express_1 -- npm install

start the resource-example with in the current master-branch of express:

nexus start express -- node examples/resource/app

start another process with version 2.5.11:

nexus start express_1 -- node -e "require('./examples/resource/app').listen(3001)"

show all locally running processes:

nexus ps

uninstall programs:

nexus rm express express_1

start a nexus server:

nexus server start -p 3840

remotely install a program and start a process, stopall and uninstall:

nexus -h 123.4.5.6 -p 3840 install https://github.com/visionmedia/express foo
nexus -h 123.4.5.6 -p 3840 start foo -- node examples/blog/app
nexus -h 123.4.5.6 -p 3840 ps
nexus -h 123.4.5.6 -p 3840 stopall
nexus -h 123.4.5.6 -p 3840 rm foo

for further information please checkout the cli- and api-docs or take a look at the tests.

cli

nexus [-r <remote>] [-c <path to configFile>] [<command> [<options>]]

commands:

• cli-version - print version-number
• cli-config - print config
• cli-ls - list installed packages
• [cli-install] - install packages
• cli-uninstall - uninstall packages
• cli-ps - list of current running (and crashed) programs
• cli-start - start a program
• cli-restart - restart a running (or max crashed) program
• cli-restartall - restart all running programs
• cli-reboot - reboot ghost-programs
• cli-stop - stop a running program
• cli-stopall - stop all running programs
• cli-exec - execute a command
• cli-log - access log-files
• cli-server - control nexus-servers
• cli-help - try nexus help <command> for more info

api

var n = require('nexus')()

n.version(cb)

n.config(cb)

n.install(opts, cb)

n.uninstall(opts, cb)

n.ps(opts, cb)

n.start(opts, cb)

n.restart(opts, cb)

n.restartall(cb)

n.reboot(cb)

n.stop(id, cb)

n.stopall(cb)

n.exec(opts, cb)

n.log(opts, cb)

n.server(opts, cb)

n.connect(opts, cb)