Thanks ! (and a few enhancements ideas)

[dani]

Hi.

First of all, many thanks for this tool. I've been looking for a flexible init / task manager for my containers, and it took me a while before I found your minit project, which is almost exactly what I was looking for.

I only have a few ideas which would make it the perfect tool for me

• Support defining several units with env vars. For now, we can only define a single unit with

MINIT_MAIN=my_command
MINIT_MAIN_KIND=daemon
MINIT_MAIN_NAME=my-daemon

It'd be great to be able to define several units, like

MINIT_MAIN=lemonldap-ng
MINIT_MAIN_KIND=daemon
MINIT_MAIN_NAME="Lemonldap::NG uwsgi server"
MINIT_NGINX="nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf"
MINIT_NGINX_KIND=daemon
MINIT_CACHE=purgeCentralCache.sh
MINIT_CACHE_KIND=cron
MINIT_CACHE_CRON="* * * * *"

• Support using env var value for the cron scheduling, eg

  kind: cron
  name: my cron task
  cron: ${CRON_SCHEDULE}
  immediate: true

• Support redering files from one dir to another. For now, the rendering of files can only be done inplace. It'd be great to have something like

  kind: render
  name: template-renderer
  from: /etc/templates/*.txt
  to: /tmp/config/

  The reason this would be useful is because I run most of my containers with a readonly rootfs (so the bundled templates can't be rendered in place). Of course, I could add a task which copy my readonly templates to /tmp/config and then render it inplace, but it'd be cleaner and easier to simply define source template and destination rendered files directly in the unit definition

[yankeguo]

I will implement the enhancements you suggested in the next release.

I think I will use MINIT_XXX_COMMAND instead of MINIT_XXX as command of an unit (and keeping MINIT_MAIN backward compatible)

[yankeguo]

And I'd love to see my projects useful to others.