hyperlapse

hyperlapse

Distributed process manager. Listens on a hypercore feed for JSON commands to execute on the host machine using psy.

CLI API

  Usage:
    $ hyperlapse <command> [options]

  Commands:
    listen <hypercore key>             Listen for commands and print a log key
    append <hypercore key> <command>   Append commands onto a feed
    list   <hypercore key>             Print the services on a machine

  Process commands:
    start <package-name@version>   Boot up a service on the host machine
    stop
    remove
    restart

  Options:
    -h, --help              Print usage
    -v, --version           Print version

JS API

var hyperlapse = require('hyperlapse')
var normcore = require('normcore')

// the command feed usually lives remotely
var commandFeed = normcore('command-feed')
var commandKey = commandFeed.key.toString('hex')

var inFeed = normcore(commandKey)
var outFeed = normcore('out-feed')
hyperlapse(inFeed, outFeed)

var outKey = outFeed.key.toString('hex')
console.log('outFeed key is ' + outKey)

commandFeed.append({
  type: 'start',
  name: 'hypercore-archiver-bot',
  source: 'hypercore-archiver-bot@1.1.3',
  command: '--channel=#dat --port=8000'
})

Process commands

Start

Start a new process on the machine.

{
  "type": "start",
  "name": "what the process should be named on the machine",
  "source": "e.g. my-cool-service-on-npm@3.4.7",
  "env": {
    "a bunch": "of env vars"
  }
}

API

agent = hyperlapse(inFeed, outFeed)

Create a new agent that tails a hypercore. Reads commands from the inFeed and logs its output to the outFeed.

Installation

$ npm install hyperlapse

See Also

• mafintosh/hypercore
• substack/psy

License

MIT