Welcome to pyentrypoint’s documentation!

pyentrypoint is a tool written in Python to manage Docker containers ENTRYPOINT.

This tool avoids writing shell scripts to:

• Handle commands and sub commands
• Identify linked containers
• Auto configure container using jinja2 templates
• Run commands before starting service
• Clean environment before running service
• Reload service when configuration has changed
• Increase security by setuid/setgid service

Contents:

• Installation
• pyentrypoint-config.yml
  • yaml references
    • command
    • subcommands
    • user, group
    • config_files
    • secret_env
    • links
    • pre_conf_commands
    • post_conf_commands
    • post_run_commands
    • reload
    • clean_env
    • debug
    • quiet
• Templates
  • Accessible objects
    • config
    • links
    • containers
    • environ
    • yaml and json
• Options setup

Working examples

• Tor hidden service

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page