orch-cli 0.1.1

A local development process orchestrator and venv-aware runner

Orch - Local Service Orchestrator

Orch is a lightweight, daemon-less command-line interface (CLI) tool designed to simplify local development of client-server or multi-service architectures.

It runs your scripts, servers, frontends, and workers concurrently, manages their Python virtual environments (venv) transparently, monitors their resources, and multiplexes their logs—without the overhead of Docker or background daemon processes.

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Key Features

• 🔌 Daemon-less Architecture: No persistent background services needed. State is safely tracked locally in .orch/state.json.
• 🐍 Automatic venv Detection: Injects your project's Python virtual environment (venv) to the process execution path automatically—no manual activation scripts required.
• 🎨 Unified Multiplexed Logs: Streams output from all services into a single terminal window with distinct, customizable color prefixes, protecting ANSI markup.
• 🌙 Background Execution: Spawn services in detached modes, persisting output to individual log files.
• 📊 Resource Monitoring: Track CPU, Memory consumption, and uptime per service with a single command.
• 🛡️ Clean Process Tree Teardown: Intercepts shutdown signals and recursively kills child processes (e.g. Node sub-processes, shell scripts) cleanly, avoiding orphaned processes.
• 🛡️ PID Recycle Protection: Safeguards against re-using recycled PIDs by validating the OS process creation time before killing or reporting status.

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Installation

Stable Release (via PyPI)

pip install orch-cli

From Source (Development Mode)

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/EASYLIFECODE/orch-cli.git
   cd orch-cli
   

2. Install in editable development mode:

   pip install -e .
   

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Configuration (orch.yml)

Configure your services in an orch.yml or project.yml file in the root of your project:

# orch.yml
project: my-awesome-app

# Global environment configuration
env:
  type: venv               # Type of virtual environment
  path: ./venv            # Path to the virtualenv folder
  variables:
    GLOBAL_VAR: "shared-value"
    DATABASE_URL: "sqlite:///local.db"

services:
  backend:
    path: ./backend        # Working directory for this service
    command: python app.py  # Automatically runs using the configured global venv
    env:
      PORT: "8000"

  frontend:
    path: ./frontend
    command: npm run dev
    env:
      VITE_API_URL: "http://localhost:8000"

  worker:
    path: ./worker
    command: python worker.py

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CLI Usage

1. Run in Foreground (Interactive Mode)

Launches all services concurrently, streaming their colored logs into the active console. Pressing Ctrl+C cleanly shuts down all services.

orch up

2. Run in Background (Detached Mode)

Launches all services in the background and saves their state.

orch start

3. Check Service Status & Resource Usage

Displays an elegant table showing running status, PID, CPU, Memory usage (recursive of all child processes), and uptime.

orch status

Example Output:

           Project: my-awesome-app (Services Status)
┌──────────┬─────────┬───────┬───────┬─────────────┬──────────┐
│ Service  │ Status  │  PID  │ CPU % │ Memory (MB) │  Uptime  │
├──────────┼─────────┼───────┼───────┼─────────────┼──────────┤
│ backend  │ RUNNING │ 12452 │  0.2% │     45.4 MB │ 00:12:30 │
│ frontend │ RUNNING │ 12459 │  0.0% │     82.1 MB │ 00:12:30 │
│ worker   │ RUNNING │ 12461 │  1.5% │     32.7 MB │ 00:12:28 │
└──────────┴─────────┴───────┴───────┴─────────────┴──────────┘

4. Consult and Tail Logs

Tail log files of services running in the background.

# Follow logs of all services
orch logs -f

# Follow logs of a specific service
orch logs backend -f

# Read last 100 lines without following
orch logs frontend --lines 100

5. Restart Services

Restarts all or specific services running in the background.

# Restart all
orch restart

# Restart only backend
orch restart backend

6. Stop Services

Stops services running in the background and cleans up state.

# Stop all services
orch stop

# Stop a specific service
orch stop backend

7. Clean State & Logs

Terminates background services, clears log files (.orch/logs/*.log) to 0 bytes, and resets the state file.

orch clean

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Technical Architecture

Orch is built using Python 3.8+, Typer for the CLI framework, Rich for visual output rendering, and psutil for platform-independent process controls.

                     [ CLI Command: orch ]
                              │
                    [ Load Configuration ]
                              │
                    [ Validate YAML Schema ]
                              │
                    [ Process Execution ]
                              │
         ┌────────────────────┴────────────────────┐
  [ Foreground Mode ]                       [ Background Mode ]
  (Multiplex to Terminal)                   (Write to Log Files)
         │                                         │
  ├── Thread 1 (stdout)                     ├── .orch/logs/backend.log
  ├── Thread 2 (stdout)                     ├── .orch/logs/frontend.log
  └── SIGINT cleanup                        └── Keep PIDs in .orch/state.json

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.