Fuge is a microservice shell and workbench. It provides an execution environment for developing microservice systems, eliminating shell hell and significantly reducing developer friction.

If you're using this module, and need help, you can:

• Post a github issue,
• Ask on the Gitter.
• Reach out on twitter to @pelger

Use npm to install globally.

npm install -g fuge

Yup. Fuge is a shell environment that focuses on a specific system configuration, providing an emulation environment in which services can run in development that is close to a modern container production deployment.

In order to run your system via fuge, you need to create a YAML configuration file. Fuge also integrates with docker-compose. Full documentation on configuring fuge is available here.

Full example demonstration systems are available here: https://github.com/apparatus/fuge-examples.

A simple configuration is provided below:

fuge_global:
  tail: true
  monitor: true
  monitor_excludes:
    - '**/node_modules/**'
    - '**/.git/**'
    - '*.log'
myservice:
  type: process
  path: ../myservice
  run: 'node index.js'
  ports:
    - myservice=8000
webapp:
  type: process
  path: ../webapp
  run: 'npm start'
  ports:
    - webapp=3000
mongo:
  image: mongo
  type: container
  ports:
    - mongo=27017:27017

This configuration defines a front end webapp process, a single microservice and a mongodb container. The system can be started by running:

$ fuge shell <path to config file>
fuge> start all

This will start the mongo container through the local docker API and also the webapp and myservice processes. Fuge will also inject configuration information into these processes as environment variables, tail the logs and watch the file system for changes, restarting the appropriate processes as you write code.

To fully explore the capabilites of Fuge, you are encouraged to run the example systems which can be found here: https://github.com/apparatus/fuge-examples.

Fuge is fully compatible with V1, V2 and V3 docker-compose formats. Fuge services can be specified entirely using docker-compose or entirely in fuge.yml or a mixture of anything in between.

Fuge can be started by running:

$ fuge shell <path to fuge config file>
fuge>

The fuge command shell supports the following commands

In addition to the above commands, Fuge will pass through all other commands to the underlying shell, for example:

fuge> ps aux | grep -i node

Will bypass the fuge ps command and execute the underlying ps command.

fuge> netstat -an | grep -i listen

Will be passed through to the underlying shell to display a lists of open listening port and so on.

The apparatus team encourage open participation. If you feel you can help in any way, be it with documentation, examples, extra testing, or new features please get in touch.

Copyright the apparatus team 2016, Licensed under MIT.