🧰 local swissknife

A lightweight CLI tool built purely in Bash for local testing and playing with various services (from DBs to KV stores to Vault to Object storage, etc..). It can help devs set up and manage local environments quickly and interactively. Using Docker under the hood for flexibility, isolation, and lightweight data management via volumes. The CLI provides interactive lifecycle management actions — start, stop and cleanups (and list?) — all from your terminal.

It goes way beyond justing getting it up via run command:

Automatically detects and suggests available ports (Handling collisions)
Checks service readiness with retry mechanism so you use it when it is really ready
Built in a reusable way using functions that adapt to different service types