Containerized Command Center Tool Kit (c3tk)

This is a busybox style tool kit for being able to leverage many tools on any workstation without having to install them on the host system in a repeatably and consistently.

Prerequsites

First install a container runtime:

• Docker
• (TODO) Podman

Installation Via GitHub

Security Note: Please inspect the script before you run it so you understand what is happening! Also feel free to download and install as separate steps. :)

curl -o - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/c3tk/c3tk/main/bin/c3tk | sudo bash -

Follow the output of the instructions emitted from the install such as adding to your `PATH:

grep -q c3tk ~/.profile || echo '[[ -x /opt/c3tk/bin/c3tk ]] && export PATH="$(/opt/c3tk/bin/c3tk paths):$PATH"' >> ~/.profile

Then open a new shell and start adding the commands you are interested in.

Configuration

Individual commands may be added from the command line as follows,

c3tk add <name> <image>

Run c3tk add to see a full description of the help output.

So for example to add the aws cli we run:

c3tk add aws image=amazon/aws-cli

Alternatively we can install sets of commands via .c3tk files. First place the files into your ~/.c3tk/config directory such as

ls ~/.c3tk/config
clouds.c3tk
hashicorp.c3tk
k8s.c3tk

Then run c3tk configure and c3tk will install the commands referenced in these files.

This will install links for the commands in the INSTALL_PATH, which defaults to /usr/local/bin/c3tk/bin.

Ensure that /usr/local/bin/c3tk/bin is in your path and then use the commands in your terminal!

NOTE: You can override the installation directory by exporting the environment variable INSTALL_PATH like so:

export INSTALL_PATH="/usr/local/bin" ./

Workspaces

Workspaces are intended for scenarios where we wish to have multiple commands available for use on a single container that we work with, as well as when we want to use long running container sessions. Workspaces can be listed, paused, and unpaused.

For example,

c3tk workspace create genesis

Will create a genesis workspace with the current working directory mounted at /w on the container. Then we can also attach to the workspace container like so:

c3tk workspace attach genesis

For conveience and efficiency most commands have shorthands, in this case we could have simply type c3tk w c genesis and c3tk w a genesis instead.

See the output of c3tk w for more options.

Development Installation Via Repository

1. Download the c3tk repo
2. Run make