Nanobox
Nanobox automates the creation of isolated, repeatable environments for local and production applications. When developing locally, Nanobox provisions your app's infrastructure inside of a virtual machine (VM) and mounts your local codebase into the VM. Any changes made to your codebase are reflected inside the virtual environment.
Once code is built and tested locally, Nanobox provisions and deploys an identical infrastructure on a production platform.
How It Works
Nanobox uses Virtual Box and Docker to create virtual development environments on your local machine. App configuration is handled in the boxfile.yml, a small yaml config file used to provision and configure your apps' environments both locally and in production.
Why Nanobox?
Nanobox allows you to stop configuring environments and just code. It guarantees that any project you start will work the same for anyone else collaborating on the project. When it's time to launch the project, you'll know that your production app will work, because it already works locally.
Installation
By using the Nanobox installer. (Recommended) .The installer includes all required dependencies (Virtual Box & Docker).
Usage
Usage:
nanobox [flags]
nanobox [command]
Available Commands:
configure Configure Nanobox.
run Start your local development environment.
build-runtime Build your app's runtime.
compile-app Compile your application.
deploy Deploy your application to a live remote or a dry-run environment.
console Open an interactive console inside a component.
remote Manage application remotes.
status Display the status of your Nanobox VM & apps.
login Authenticate your nanobox client with your nanobox.io account.
logout Remove your nanobox.io api token from your local nanobox client.
clean Clean out any apps that no longer exist.
info Show information about the specified environment.
tunnel Create a secure tunnel between your local machine & a live component.
implode Remove all Nanobox-created containers, files, & data.
destroy Destroy the current project and remove it from Nanobox.
start Start the Nanobox virtual machine.
stop Stop the Nanobox virtual machine.
update-images Updates docker images.
evar Manage environment variables.
dns Manage dns aliases for local applications.
log Streams application logs.
version Show the current Nanobox version.
server Start a dedicated nanobox server
Flags:
--debug In the event of a failure, drop into debug context
-h, --help help for nanobox
-t, --trace Increases display output and sets level to trace
-v, --verbose Increases display output and sets level to debug
Use "nanobox [command] --help" for more information about a command.
Documentation
- Nanobox documentation is available at docs.nanobox.io.
- Guides for popular languages, frameworks and services are avaialble at guides.nanobox.io.
Contributing
Contributing to Nanobox is easy. Just follow these contribution guidelines.
Nanobox uses govendor to vendor dependencies. Use govendor sync to restore dependencies.
Contact
For help using Nanobox or if you have any questions/suggestions, please reach out to help@nanobox.io or find us on slack. You can also create a new issue on this project.
