create-xkite-cli

Creates the xkite Command Line Interface (CLI) Utility.

Command Line Interface for xkite, a Kafka Integrated Testing Environment. Another tool in the xkite library to give the user flexibility and control over their Kafka ecosystem.

• Easy to use Command Line Interface (CLI) to interact with the xkite-core library. It’s a simple alternative to the full xkite GUI, meant to provide users with the ability to automate their testing using scripts.
• Configure a custom docker ecosystem using command line inputs or a config.json file, deploy, pause/ unpause, shutdown, and remove containers and volumes.
• Download the docker ecosystem configuration (package.zip) containing the docker-compose.yml file and dependencies in order to deploy their ecosystem on a cloud instance/remote server by simply running docker-compose up.
• Acts as a remote client to interface with the xkite GUI server. The user can perform all the aforementioned functions provided remotely on the xkite GUI server by providing the URL as a configuration input.
• More granular control over which docker images they choose to deploy (something that is not configurable currently with the xkite GUI).

Dependencies

• Latest stable versions of Node.js and NPM installed
• Latest stable version of docker-compose installed.
• Clone repository: git clone https://github.com/oslabs-beta/xkite-cli.git
• Install dependencies: Run npm install inside the project folder

Quickstart

To install the xkite-cli into your environment just simply run the following command:

  $ npx create-xkite-cli <directory-name>

After the installation is complete, you will be able to run xkite-cli as follows:

  $ xkite-cli

See the xkite-cli documentation for further details