Colima Helper

colima-helper purpose is to add some little features to colima

• fs-event: filesystem events forwarder from the host to colima instance (inspired from dinghy fsevents_to_vm)

Installation

pip install git+https://github.com/micoli/colima-helper.git

or for upgrade

pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/micoli/colima-helper.git

depending of your installation pip can be replaced by pip3

Example of executions:

help

$ colima-helper --help
usage: colima-helper [-h] [--daemon | --no-daemon] [--debug] [--verbose] {fs-events,kill-fs-events} ...

Colima host helper

positional arguments:
  {fs-events,kill-fs-events}
                        commands
    fs-events           wath for filesystem changes and "touch" on colima host
    kill-fs-events      kill fs-event daemon

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --daemon, --no-daemon
                        daemonize (default: False)
  --debug               Print lots of debugging statements
  --verbose             Be verbose

fs-events

Interactive

colima-helper fs-events --path=~/src/project/ --host=colima

Daemonized

colima-helper --daemon --verbose fs-events --path=~/src/project/
colima-helper kill-fs-events --path=~/src/project/

Files location

log: /tmp/colima-helper-fs-events.log pid: /tmp/colima-helper-fs-events.pid

Todo

• migrate daemon mode to https://pypi.org/project/launchctl/

Merge requests are welcomed