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Enable all zcmd core functionality to run on a computer that simply has docker and docker-compose. This will enable computers to use different command shells (e.g., zsh instead of bash; not have python3 system wide etc.)

Implement zcmd that duplicates an existing stack in such a way that it resolves the following:

• prevents PORT conflicts with original stack
• prevents VOLUME overlap with original stack

One or more scripts may have "sudo" embedded in them. (e.g., see devutils/zc-uncompress.sh)

This usually happens as a workaround to a misconfigured environment. Instead of embedding sudo, let's have the scripts check for write rights in the target file area and simply exit with code 2 and a clear error message if the user needs to fix permissions of a folder.

Provide a centralized environment file scheme where zcmd up / zcmd run etc select for unused port numbers as needed for new containers.

https://devclass.com/2019/09/13/cnab-ready-for-prime-time/

Context specific commands fail to show help when invoked by "zcmd --help [CMD]" from the wrong type of folder. For example "zcmd --help up" provides help for the "up" command when invoked from a stack folder but fails to show any information when invoked from any other folder.

Suggested fix

In zcmd, if help comes up empty --- have it automatically search for a match in other contexts in this order: machine, stack

The global context is already searched in all cases, so this only applies to machine and stack commands.

Perhaps reduce some of the output and format it in a tabular format.

The current logo of a simple killer whale and abstract containers is just a placeholder. Can someone come up with a better logo for ZCMD?

Would be useful to determine what features could be added to zcmd to facilitate migration of developer containers from local environment/EC2 platforms into AWS ECS platforms. Looking for ideas.

Easy way to create bundle of running instance for transference to another runtime environment.

The existing demonstration stack, linked in the README.md (https://github.com/bah-insignia/zcmd-demo-stack) has several containers that fire up, but they are not very exciting.

Is there a simple demo stack that would show a new user something more flashy than a D3 animation and a few database management UIs? Either a completely alternate demo stack or an enhancement to the existing one?

Enhance the zcmd up and the zcmd down so they natively operate on Kubernetes stacks when present. This will allow users to seemlessly work with both Docker Compose and Kubernetes based stacks using the same commands for both.

(Idea brought up by Jay Stuart a few days back.)

Stop containers of running stack without removing them

Fire up a working "hello world" stack from a curated set of available hello world projects in a managed github repo. (command might be git-hw for git hello world; more sophisticated projects might be available from a boilerplate repo with git-bp command.)