docky is a multi-purpose tool that adds some functionality for creating, running and managing docker-compose.yml files.

This project was initially created for building Odoo environments without effort based on docker-compose and docker.

Step by step, we have made it generic and now also use it for our rails and ruby development.

Docky integrates a default docker-compose file generator and simplifies running of docker containers.

Once your setup is done, docky depends on docker-compose and uses the same file. Except for some convenience features, you will mostly get the same results if you run the generated docker-compose.yml file through docker-compose or docky.

docker-ce : https://docs.docker.com/install/ (or podman)

Docky is available from pypi

pip install docky
# or with pipx : pipx install docky --include-deps

pip install docky --upgrade
# or with pipx : pipx upgrade docky --include-deps

docky init

Bootstraps a project using a template. This will ask you a series of questions to create customized .env and docker-compose.yml files that you can further edit. The template used is for running an Odoo server with some optional tools. Note that the template presumes that you have a running Traefik container on the "traefik" docker network.

You can also start from a template like this one : https://github.com/akretion/docky-odoo-template

For more information on other commands, use docky --help and check the documentation.

The label docky.main.service and docky.user

docky.main.service: odoo
docky.user: odoo

Allows you to define the main service of your docker-compose.yml file, and to specify the command line user for the container when you run for example 'docky run'.

• Use ak to build your project.
• When developing, if you are on several projects at once, it quickly becomes a mess to manage different ports of your containers. We recommend usage of Traefik. Here is an example docker-compose.yml file for local development purposes:

version: "3.7"
services:
    traefik:
    image: "traefik:v2.1"
    restart: always
    container_name: "traefik"
    command:
        - "--api.insecure=true"
        - "--providers.docker=true"
        - "--providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false"
        - "--entrypoints.web.address=:80"
    ports:
        - "127.0.0.1:80:80"
        - "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
    volumes:
        - "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro"
    networks:
    - traefik

networks:
    traefik:
        name: traefik

More info about Traefik config on this repo: https://github.com/akretion/traefik-template

To avoid issues with line wrapping with "docky open" please use a version of docker > to 18.06.0-ce see : docker/compose#6151

version 7.0.0

• remove the need of docky config file in $HOME
• use .env to be more compatible with docker-compose
• improve templates
• create init command
• heavy refactoring

version 6.0.0

• refactor remove proxy code and use traefik
• remove docky.yml now you must use labels on services (see doc)
• add option "--service=myservice" on docky run and docky open

version 5.0.0:

• Resolve mac compatibility by remove proxy code that use a mounted version of etc/hosts now you need to install dnsmasq. This should also solve windows compatibilty by using the local dns https://stackoverflow.com/questions/138162/wildcards-in-a-windows-hosts-file?answertab=votes#tab-top
• Solve issue with project name in multi user env (the name is based on user + directory name)
• Add possibility to specify the service for run, open, logs, kill, down, restart, start cmd for example now you can do "docky open db" to open a terminal on the db server or you can restart a service like "docky restart varnish"
• Solve issue with missing aliases name
• Solve issue with missing environment variable with docky open (now we use a monkey-pacthed version of docker-compose exec)
• Fix documentation build
• Improve docky none specific cmd to a project to be run without project. For example, you can use docky help, docky proxy outside of a directory project