System Admin and Engineering Tools Container

This would be like a jump host to perform mass config runs and such. Use as a command line with all your favorite tools installed for dev/admin/eng.

Usage

1. Get a command line

docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):$(pwd) -w $(pwd) --entrypoint bash syseng:latest

3. For Ansible

# docker run --rm \
# 	-it \
# 	-v ${PWD}/hosts:/etc/ansible/hosts \
# 	-v ${PWD}/ansible.cfg:/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg \
# 	-v ${HOME}/.ssh:/root/.ssh:ro \
# 	ansible all -m ping

3. For inspec
   TBD

What's installed

• Ansible
• Inspec
• Terraform
• Packer
• OpenTofu
• Powershell

PowerShell is installed

• See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats-new/unix-support?view=powershell-7.4&viewFallbackFrom=powershell-7.2

I just thought it might be useful to have. That is a linux version of powershell.  Start the container and run pwsh to get a powershell command line. I'm thinking that maybe that gets its own container so that the libraries can be installed, or maybe just in this container I may remove it entirely since you cannot manage a windows box from a linux version of Powershell. No wmi commands... Although you can use ssh with it.

TODO

• command history
• fzf, exa/eza, etc
• tldr, tealdeer, man pages, other docs

Build

Build the container

docker build --tag syseng:latest .