dekit

Process manager for dev and prod.

dekit runs your project's tasks, such as servers, databases and workers, in development and in production. You define the tasks in a config file, and dekit handles dependencies, crashes and restarts.

Install

pip install dekit-cli

Or as a tool, with uv or pipx:

uv tool install dekit-cli
pipx install dekit-cli

This installs the dekit command, a native binary. Wheels are published for macOS (arm64, x64), Linux (arm64, x64) and Windows (x64).

dekit also installs with a script (curl -fsSL https://dekit.run/install.sh | sh, or irm https://dekit.run/install.ps1 | iex on Windows) or from npm (npm install -g @dekit/cli).

dekit update updates only a dekit from the script. Update this one with pip install -U dekit-cli (or uv tool upgrade dekit-cli), then run dekit runner upgrade --all to switch running runners to it.

Quick start

dekit.yaml at the project root:

tasks:
  db:
    cmd: ["postgres", "-D", ".data/db"]
    ready: { log: "ready to accept connections" }
  api:
    cmd: ["cargo", "run", "-p", "api"]
    deps: [db]
    autostart: true

dekit up        # start the runner and the autostart tasks
dekit ls        # see what is running
dekit attach    # open the terminal UI
dekit down      # stop for the day; `dekit up` brings everything back

The tasks keep running after you close the terminal. dekit help shows the docs in your terminal.

Coming from mprocs

dekit is the next version of mprocs. dekit mprocs runs your mprocs.yaml with the same flags and keys. See Coming from mprocs to switch to dekit.yaml.

Links

• Documentation: https://dekit.run/docs
• Changelog: https://github.com/pvolok/dekit/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• Repository: https://github.com/pvolok/dekit