npm2dock

Convert any npm package into a runnable container

Usage

$ npm2dock micro-sleep

Downloads the latest stable version (npm install behaviour) of the micro-sleep package and creates a docker image named micro-sleep with a tag corresponding to the version of the resolved package.

$ npm2dock [email protected]

Does the same thing but resolves to the 1.0.1 version of the package (npm install behaviour) This then generates the micro-sleep:1.0.1 image on your docker.

Run it

Once you've generated your images, they can be run anywhere like this for example

$ docker run -d -p 3000:3000 micro-sleep:1.0.0

Conventions

npm2dock makes 3 main assumptions about the structure of the packages it pulls from npm:

• it has an npm start script configured
• it starts a server on at least one of these ports: 3000 8000 8080 8443
• it only needs a node.js runtime to run.

Additionnally it is strongly recommended that configuration is made via ENV variables

If the package you want to run follows these, then life will be a breeze anyway.

Dependencies

the npm2dock executable itself is a bash script relying on the presence of Docker on the host.

• bash
• docker
• npm

What does it actually do?

Almost nothing. The source code is shorter than this README.

Notes

npm2dock currently uses the mhart/alpine-node image as a base for its reasonable size.

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2016 Florent Jaby

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