podmatrix

A script which executes commands within a 'matrix' of Podman containers.

One purpose would be to quickly spawn containers and launch an application test suite within those containers, against multiple versions of a specific programming language.

The containers are created in sequence, then commands are executed in parallel.

podmatrix is fast and only requires Bash and rootless Podman.

The script exit code is the sum of executed commands exit codes, which means 0 if everything went fine.

Use echo $? to display it after execution.

Requirements

• GNU bash 4+
• Podman

Install

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jfhovinne/podmatrix/master/podmatrix && chmod +x podmatrix

Usage

$ podmatrix
podmatrix - A script which executes commands within a 'matrix' of Podman containers

Usage:
  podmatrix COMMAND
  podmatrix [COMMAND] --help | -h
  podmatrix --version | -v

Commands:
  exec   Execute a command inside Podman containers

exec command

$ podmatrix exec --help
podmatrix exec - Execute a command inside Podman containers

Alias: e

Usage:
  podmatrix exec COMMAND [OPTIONS]
  podmatrix exec --help | -h

Options:
  --help, -h
    Show this help

  --source, -s SOURCE
    Local source path to copy into containers

  --target, -t TARGET
    Container path to copy source to and where command will be executed

  --image, -i IMAGE (repeatable)
    The container image to run

  --tag TAG (repeatable)
    The container image tag to run
    Default: latest

Arguments:
  COMMAND
    The command to execute

Examples:
  podmatrix exec ./test.sh --source . --target /tmp/src --image python --tag 3.9
  --tag 3.10 --tag 3.11
  podmatrix exec ./test.sh --source . --target /tmp/src --image python --image
  docker.io/pypy --tag 3.8 --tag 3.9

Examples

Current directory contains a Python application and a test.sh script which builds and tests it.

To test it with different Python versions:

podmatrix exec ./test.sh --source . --target /tmp/src --image python \
--tag 3.9 --tag 3.10 --tag 3.11

To test it with different Python versions and flavors:

podmatrix exec ./test.sh --source . --target /tmp/src --image python --image
docker.io/pypy --tag 3.8 --tag 3.9

Test installation of a PHP package with different versions of Composer:

podmatrix exec "composer require monolog/monolog" --image docker.io/composer \
--tag 1.10 --tag 2.2 --tag 2.3 --tag 2.4 --tag 2.5

Compare installation of the curl package in Debian and Ubuntu (why not):

podmatrix exec "apt update && apt install -y curl" \
--image debian --image ubuntu > curl.log

Clone a Python app repository and install its dependencies:

podmatrix exec "git clone https://github.com/jfhovinne/gnrt && cd gnrt && pip install -r requirements.txt" \
--image python --tag 3.11 --tag 3.12.0a4