nimbuscli 0.3.2

Nimbus is engineered to optimize data backup processes and efficiently orchestrate service deployments.

nimbus

Nimbus is engineered to optimize data backup processes and efficiently orchestrate service deployments for homelabs and dev environments.

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Getting Started
• Usage
  • Backups
  • Deployments

Overview

Nimbus stands as a comprehensive data backup manager and service deployment orchestrator tailored for homelabs, media centers, and local development environments. It offers a seamless, turnkey solution to streamline your data management and service orchestration needs. While Nimbus is robust for personal or developmental use, it is not intended to supplant production-level or mission-critical tools designed for commercial-scale backups and deployments.

Getting Started

Install ni with pipx or pip:

pip install nimbuscli
ni --version

To do something with nimbus you need to:

• Setup application configuration
• Install docker
• Install rar

For guidance and examples on setting up your configuration, please refer to the configuration example.

Usage

By default, Nimbus searches for its configuration file at the ~/.nimbus/config.yaml path.
It is anticipated that all configurations for the application will be centralized within this file.

Important Note on Glob Patterns in bash/sh
When using the ni command, it’s essential to use \* in place of *.
This is because bash or sh interprets * as a glob pattern and attempts to expand it before passing it to ni.
By escaping the asterisk (\*), you ensure that ni receives the character literally, allowing it to process the glob pattern as intended.

Backups

The backup command facilitates the creation of backups and enables their optional upload to a remote destination, such as an AWS S3 bucket.
The command accepts optional selectors, that filter the configured backup groups using specified glob patterns.

ni backup [selectors]

Lets assume we have the following Nimbus configuration:

profiles:
  archive:
    - name: rar-protected
      provider: rar
      password: SecretPassword
      recovery: 3
      compression: 0
  upload:
    - name: aws-archive
      provider: aws
      access_key: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
      secret_key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
      bucket: backups.bucket.aws
      storage_class: STANDARD

commands:
  backup:
    destination: ~/.nimbus/backups
    archiver: rar-protected
    uploader: aws-archive
    directories: 
      photos:
        - ~/Pictures
        - /mnt/photos
      cloud:
        - /mnt/nextcloud
      docs:
        - ~/Documents

With this configuration, the following backup commands would result in:

Command	Selected Backup groups
ni backup	photos cloud docs
ni backup nx\*
ni backup photos	photos
ni backup ph\* \*cloud\*	photos cloud
ni backup \*o\?\?	cloud docs

Deployments

The up and down commands manage deployments of services. Nimbus supports services structured as Docker Compose stacks and performs recursive service discovery for the configured directories.
The command accepts optional selectors, that filter the discovered services using specified glob patterns.

ni up [selectors]
ni down [selectors]

Lets assume we have the following Nimbus configuration:

commands:
  deploy:
    services:
      - ~/.nimbus/services

And under the ~/.nimbus/services we have the following directory structure:

|- services
    |- media
        |- .env
        |- compose.yaml
    |- cloud
        |- .env
        |- compose.yaml
    |- git
        |- some_file.txt 
        |- start.sh

With this configuration and directory structure, the following deployment commands would result in:

Command	Selected Services
ni up	media cloud
ni up media	media
ni down g\*
ni down git
ni down cl\*	cloud