fish-pepper - Spicing1 up the ocean
fish-pepper is a multi-dimensional docker build generator . It allows you to create many similar Docker builds with the help of templates and building blocks. It allows for compositions of building blocks in addition to the usual Docker inheritance from base images.
For example consider a Java base image: Some users might require Java 7, some want Java 8. For running Microservices a JRE might be sufficient. In other use cases you need a full JDK. These four variants are all quite similar with respect to documentation, Dockerfiles and support files like startup scripts. Copy-and-paste might work but is not a good solution considering the image evolution over time or when introducing even more parameters.
With fish-pepper you can use flexible templates which are filled
with variations of the base image (like 'version' : [ 'java7', 'java8'], 'type': ['jdk', 'jre']) and which will create
multiple, similar Dockerfile builds. The example below
dives into this in more details.
The generated build files can also be used directly to create the
images with fish-pepper against a running Docker daemon or they can
be used as the content for automated Docker Hub builds when checked in
into Github.
1: fish pepper is an ancient chili pepper variety coming from Baltimore and are famous for the ornamental qualities. They are not too hot and are ideal to spice up everything, even Docker builds :)