refactor to allow better integration between container and local command line

Dockerfile

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ RUN apt-get install -y nodejs
 # install ruby
 RUN apt-get install -y ruby1.9.1 ruby1.9.1-dev
 
+
 # add a user
 RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash docker
 
@@ -28,10 +29,6 @@ USER docker
 # configure ruby gems to run from the home directory
 ENV PATH $PATH:/home/docker/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/bin
 
-# install some ruby gems 
-RUN gem install --user-install sass
-RUN gem install --user-install compass
-
 # configure npm to run without sudo permissions
 RUN echo 'prefix=${HOME}/.npm-packages' >> $HOME/.npmrc
 
@@ -40,27 +37,12 @@ ENV NODE_PATH $NPM_PACKAGES/lib/node_modules:$NODE_PATH
 ENV PATH $PATH:$NPM_PACKAGES/bin
 ENV MANPATH $(manpath):$NPM_PACKAGES/share/man
 
-# install yeoman tooling and other npm packages
+# the home folder is a volume
-RUN npm install -g node-gyp
+# we can mount it to a data volume and then it will be shared with all instances
-RUN npm install -g yo bower grunt-cli
+VOLUME /home/docker
-RUN npm install -g generator-webapp generator-angular generator-angular-fullstack generator-polymer
   
-# #create a data volume
+# expose the ports
-# actually, let's just leave this to the command line
-# VOLUME /data
-
-# #expose the ports
-# actually, let's just leave this to the command line
 # EXPOSE 8000
 # EXPOSE 9000
 # EXPOSE 3000
 # EXPOSE 35729
-
-# configure git
-RUN git config --global push.default simple
-RUN git config --global credential.helper cache
-RUN git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=43200'
-
-# it would be nice if npm packages could be shared between instances...
-# however it is difficult to both: add global packages from the Dockerfile
-# and at the same time have the packages saved in a volume

README.md

@@ -2,11 +2,17 @@
 
 A docker container for developing mean stack applications
 
-Useage
+Usage
 ======
 
-Build the container with `sudo docker build -t 'tag name' .` and run with `sudo ./mean-dev`. Or, start a whole web development stack with `sudo ./startup`.
+Build the container with `docker build -t 'tag name' .`. Install the `mean` and `start-mongodb` to `~/bin` or some other location in the path.
 
-To mount the samba filesystem, try `sudo mount -t cifs uid=adamarthurryan forceuid //localserver/_data /mnt/localserver`
+To run commands from the container, use `mean <command>`. For example, to install a new npm package globally:
+    mean npm install -g generator-polymer
 
+Or to create a yeoman scaffolding in the current folder:
+    mean yo polymer
+
+Some default npm and gem packages are specified in `default-packages.sh`. They can be installed with:
+    mean bash default-packages.sh
 

default-packages.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+
+# default package installations
+echo "run this script with 'mean bash default-packages.sh'"
+
+
+
+# install some ruby gems 
+gem install --user-install sass
+gem install --user-install compass
+
+# install yeoman tooling and other npm packages
+npm install -g node-gyp
+npm install -g yo bower grunt-cli
+npm install -g generator-webapp generator-angular generator-angular-fullstack generator-polymer

mean

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# launch the mean docker container to execute a single command on the working directory
+# the working directory will be mounted as /working in the docker container
+
+
+# test if the data-docker-home container has been created
+if docker inspect -f {{.Name}} data-docker-home > /dev/null
+  then 
+    echo > /dev/null
+  else
+    echo "* creating data-docker-home container"
+    echo
+    # The data container has a volume at /home/docker, is named 'data' and is based on busybox
+    docker create -v /home/docker --name data-docker-home adamarthurryan/mean echo "Data container - docker home"
+    
+fi
+
+docker run -it --rm --volumes-from=data-docker-home -v ${PWD}:/working -w /working -p 9000:9000 -p 35729:25729 adamarthurryan/mean $@

mean-dev

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-docker run -d -it --name=mean-dev --volumes-from=data-files --link=mongodb:mongodb -p=localnum:9000 -p=localnum:34729 -it adamarthurryan/mean-dev

mount-data

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-
-# determine the id of the user who invoked this script
-# if sudo was used, the user who invoked sudo 
-if [ ${SUDO_USER} ]
-	then
-		REAL_USER=${SUDO_USER}
-	else
-		REAL_USER=${USER}
-fi 
-
-echo "mounting //localhost_data to /mnt/data with uid:gid ${REAL_USER}:${REAL_USER}"
-mount -t cifs //localhost/_data /mnt/data -o uid=${REAL_USER} -o gid=${REAL_USER} -o forceuid -o forcegid

start-mongodb

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#! /bin/bash
+
+# Start a data container and a mongodb instance
+
+echo
+
+# test if the data-db container has been created 
+if docker inspect -f {{.Name}} data-db
+  then
+    echo "* data-db exists"
+  else
+    echo "* creating data-db"
+    # The data container has a volume at /data/db, is named 'data' and is based on mongo
+    docker create -v /data/db --name data-db mongo echo "Data container - database"
+fi
+
+echo
+
+# test if the mongo db server has been created 
+if docker inspect -f {{.Name}} mongodb
+  then 
+    # make sure the server is running
+    if docker inspect -f {{.State.Running}} mongodb
+      then
+        echo "* mongodb exists and is running"
+      else
+        echo "* starting mongodb"
+        docker start mongodb
+    fi
+  else  
+    echo "* creating new mongodb server"
+    # Start a mongo db server as a daemon
+    # The server will use the data-db container as a volume
+    docker run -p 27017 --name=mongodb --volumes-from=data-db -d mongo 
+fi
+
+

startup

@@ -1,97 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/bash
-
-echo "* this script must be run as super user"
-
-# Start a data container, an ssh server, a mongodb instance and a samba server
-
-echo
-
-# test if the data-db container has been created 
-if docker inspect -f {{.Name}} data-db
-  then
-    echo "* data-db exists"
-  else
-    echo "* creating data-db"
-    # The data container has a volume at /data/db, is named 'data' and is based on busybox
-    docker create -v /data/db --name data-db busybox echo "Data container - database"
-fi
-
-echo
-
-# test if the mongo db server has been created 
-if docker inspect -f {{.Name}} mongodb
-  then 
-    # make sure the server is running
-    if docker inspect -f {{.State.Running}} mongodb
-      then
-        echo "* mongodb exists and is running"
-      else
-        echo "* starting mongodb"
-        docker start mongodb
-    fi
-  else  
-    echo "* creating new mongodb server"
-    # Start a mongo db server as a daemon
-    # The server will restart automatically on boot and will use the data-db container as a volume
-    docker run -p 27017 --name=mongodb --volumes-from=data-db -d mongo 
-fi
-
-echo
-
-# test if the data-files container has been created
-if docker inspect -f {{.Name}} data-files
-  then 
-    echo "* data-files exists"
-  else
-    echo "* creating data-files"
-    # The data container has a volume at /data/db, is named 'data' and is based on busybox
-    docker create -v /data --name data-files busybox echo "Data container - files"
-    
-    # To connect a client to this server we would:
-    # sudo docker run --link=mongodb:mongodb -i mongo mongo --host mongodb
-fi
-
-echo  
-
-#make sure the samba server is running
-if docker inspect -f {{.State.Running}} samba-server
-  then
-    echo "* samba-server running"
-  else
-    # create the samba server
-    echo "* creating samba server"
-    sudo docker run --rm -v $(which docker):/docker -v /var/run/docker.sock:/docker.sock svendowideit/samba data-files
-fi
-
-echo
-
-# test if the mean-dev container has been created
-if docker inspect -f {{.Name}} mean-dev
-  then
-    # make sure the server is running
-    if docker inspect -f {{.State.Running}} mean-dev
-      then
-        echo "* mean-dev exists and is running"
-      else
-        echo "* starting mean-dev"
-    fi
-  else
-    echo "* creating mean-dev"
-    docker run -d --name=mean-dev --volumes-from=data-files --link=mongodb:mongodb -p=8000:8000 -p=9000:9000 -p=3000:3000 -p=35729:35729 -it adamarthurryan/mean-dev
-fi 
-
-echo
-echo
-echo "* to attach to the mean-dev server: "
-echo "> sudo docker attach mean-dev" 
-echo
-echo "* to run an instance for access to tools:"
-echo "> sudo docker run --volumes-from=data-files --rm -it adamarthurryan/mean-dev"
-
-echo 
-echo "* or maybe you want another dev server:"
-echo "docker run -d --name=thename --volumes-from=data-files --link=mongodb:mongodb -p=localnum:9000 -p=localnum:34729 -it adamarthurryan/mean-dev"
-
-echo
-echo "* mount the data folder with ./mount-data"
-