boatswain 0.2.0

Yaml based way to build Docker images.

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Boatswain
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Boatswain is a simple build system for docker images.

It is especially usefull when you have multiple docker images that
depend on each other.


Installation
============

Boatswain is a simple python script you can install with pip

::

$ pip install boatswain


Usage
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Create a file called boatswain.yml for your project with the following
syntax, which is heavily based on docker-compose.

:: yaml

version: 1.0 # The version of the boatswain yaml
organisation: boatswain # Your dockerhub organisation
images:
image1:pytest: # the key will be used to tag the image
context: docker/image1 # The path of the dockerfile
image2:pytest:
context: docker/image2
from: image1:pytest
image3:pytest:
context: docker/image3
from: image2:pytest
image4:pytest:
context: docker/image4
tag: image12:pytest # This image will be tagged with this





2017-02-18:
Added a whole bunch of tests
Added the clean command
Changed file layout from recursive to using from