Create a Docker image from a server accessible over SSH.

Alpha release. You have been warned

• docker (and boot2docker if you are not on Linux)
• pv

Jenova doesn't currently support Windows. PR are welcome

sudo curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kargo/jenova/master/jenova -o /usr/bin/jenova

jenova [ip-or-domain-name] [name-of-image-to-create] [additonal-files-or-folders-to-sync]

1. Find the package manager on the remote host
2. Use it to find all files that were installed through it
3. Sync those files, as well as '/etc', '/opt' and '/root'
4. If you specify additional files, sync those as well

Most likely the generated image will be very large (>1Gb at least). Jenova helps you synchronizing systems, but it doesn't help you be smart. You should use Jenova-generated images only for local development and testing purposes.

To start a container from your image:

docker run -it [image-name] bash

Jenova doesn't provide replacements for /sbin/init. When you start a machine, it will not start services automatically. We recommend to use Kargo to run the generated image and to install additional things on that image.

MIT.