haibu-carapace v0.7.1

haibu-carapace

Haibu Drone's Little Shell

What is Carapace

Carapace is an process wrapper for Node.js applications that is part of the Haibu Network. Carapace also provides a plugin system to simplify deployment and development of applications.

What can I do with Carapace?

By utilizing Carapace you can help automate deployments of applications into a custom environment. Combining Carapace with the Forever Daemon can allow you run the application in the environment indefinitely.

Carapace CLI Options

carapace --plugin [plugin] --[plugin] [options] application [options]

Plugins

--plugin [plugin]

Plugin to use with the carapace instance

Plugin Options

--[plugin] [options]

Option to be passed to the plugin

Application & Application's Options

[application] [application's CLI options]

Any options that isn't consumed by the Carapace will automatically be passed to the application

Default Plugins

List of known plugins, and options (if any) used by them

• chdir - directory to change into
• heartbeat - time in micro-seconds between 'carapace::heartbeat' events
• coffee - spawn .coffee files
• setuid - set the uid of the spawned process
• net - automatically listen on a new port if EADDRINUSE is thrown

Installation

  $ [sudo] npm install carapace

Run Tests

All of the carapace tests are written in vows

  $ npm test

Author: Nodejitsu Inc.

Maintainers: Charlie Robbins, Bradley Meck, Jameson Lee