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Metaparticle/Package: Language Fluent Containerization and Deployment in Java, .NET and Javascript (and more coming soon)

Metaparticle/Package

Language Idiomatic bindings for building Container Images.

What's this about?

Containers are an optimal way to package and deploy your code. However, teaching developers to learn a new configuration file format, and toolchain, just to package their application in a container is an unnecessary barrier to entry for many programmers just starting out with containers.

Metaparticle/Package simplifies the task of building and deploying container images. Metaparticle/Package is a collection of libraries that enable programmers to build and deploy containers using code that feels familiar to them.

Can you give me an example?

Here's a simple example of building a containerized Java application:

import io.metaparticle.annotations.Package;
import static io.metaparticle.Metaparticle.Containerize;

public class Main {
    @Package(repository="brendanburns",
             jarFile="path/to/my-fat-jar.jar")
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Containerize(() -> {
            System.out.println("Hello Metaparticle/Package");
        });
    }
}

When you run this program via the java command or your IDE, rather than simply executing your code, this program packages up the Java code in a container, and runs that container.

What languages do you support?

Currently:

• java
• .NET core
• javascript (NodeJS)

But it's fairly straightforward to add other languages, we would love to see contributions.

Details

For more details see the more complete walkthroughs for each language:

• java tutorial
• .NET Core tutorial
• javascript tutorial