docker-compose

[edasque]

Have you thought about generating a docker-compose file as well? While they typically combine a few services, a fragment would work well.

[lavie]

What would you use that for? The purpose of this script as I originally envisioned it is to let you run ad-hoc containers that were launched with lots of switches. What's the use-case that you have in mind for adding support for docker-compose output format?

[hellodanylo]

Generating docker-compose.yml is useful for taking snapshots of a running set of containers. It would be a useful dev-ops tool.

[lavie]

It would be an interesting challenge to try to implement this. docker-compose is so much more than just containers, though. It's networks, volumes, etc. practically the entire docker engine API would have to be employed.

[Cassock]

This is the exact use case I've found myself with today. I have a host running 39ish containers that were created using a mix of compose, run commands, and portainer, that all need to be recreated on a different host while I rebuild the first one.

[acortelyou]

you can pipe the output of runlike into composerize.

unfortunately that codebase is npm and this one is python or else we could have ourselves a pr with the combined functionality pretty quick.

either way, using these tools together is a great way to jump from ad-hoc to managed...

now we just need the same for kubernetes (jk)