Some Details#

Ok, so what does Unholy actually do?

The Resources#

Throughout Unholy, we refer to several resources:

  • Workspace: A Docker volume that’s used to keep your git repo and other project materials, mounted as /workspace.

  • Development Environment: A Docker container where all commands are run.

  • Unholyfiles, local config, etc: The complete collection of data that Unholy uses to manage your project. (See Configuration)

  • Unholy Project: The entire collection of the above.

For example, unholy remake deletes and recreates the Development Environment but doesn’t touch your Workspace.

Development Environment Creation#

Unholy doesn’t use Dockerfiles or create/cache images, or anything like that, for a few reasons:

  • It’s expected that most of the time that you’re recreating your development environment, it’s because you changed an Unholyfile

  • Config comes from many places, including a few user-specific ones, so caching would have to be user-specific, too

  • The Dockerfile syntax is not particularly helpful in this use case

So Development Environment creation is like so:

  1. Pull the base image (every time, no use building from a stale base)

2. Copy some data from the user, like git config and ssh known hosts 2. Run each Unholyfile’s script

Forwarding and Piping#

All connections in and out of the development environment are through Docker exec and stdio forwarding. That’s all.

Neovide is pointed to something like docker exec devenv nvim.

SSH agent forwarding is two copies of socat chained together with Docker.

If you find this horrifying, first I’m sorry I inflicted this knowledge on you, and second the name of the tool is Unholy.

Bootstrap#

Occasionally, when the development environment is unavailable, Unholy will spawn a bootstrap container and use that for operations. It should be deleted automatically when Unholy is done with it.