Process Compose

Process compose is a lightweight utility for building custom workflows and execution sequences. It is optimized for:

• Parallelizing processes execution
• Defining execution dependencies and order
• Defining recovery policies (restart on-failure, always, no)
• Declaring processes arguments
• Declaring processes environment variables

It is heavily inspired by docker-compose, but without the need for containers. The configuration syntax tries to follow the docker-compose specifications, with a few minor additions and lots of subtractions.

Installation

• Download one of the releases

Documentation

• See examples of workflows for best practices
• See below

List of Features and Planned Features

✅ Mostly implemented

❌ Implementation not started (Your feedback and ⭐ will motivate further development 😃)

✅ Launcher

✅ Parallel

process1:
  command: "sleep 3"
process2:
  command: "sleep 3"

✅ Serial

process1:
  command: "sleep 3"
  depends_on:
    process2: 
      condition: process_completed_successfully # or "process_completed" if you don't care about errors
process2:
  command: "sleep 3"
  depends_on:
    process3: 
      condition: process_completed_successfully # or "process_completed" if you don't care about errors

❌ Instance Number

✅ Define process dependencies

process2:
  depends_on:
  process2: 
    condition: process_completed_successfully # or "process_started" (default)
  process3: 
    condition: process_completed_successfully

✅ Output Handling

✅ Show process name

✅ Different colors per process

✅ StdErr is printed in Red

❌ Silence specific processes

✅ Logger

✅ Per Process Log Collection

process2:
  log_location: ./pc.process2.log #if undefined or empty no logs will be saved

✅ Capture StdOut output

✅ Capture StdErr output

✅ Merge into a single file

processes:
  process2:
    command: "chmod 666 /path/to/file"
environment:
  - 'ABC=42'
log_location: ./pc.global.log #if undefined or empty no logs will be saved (if also not defined per process)

❌ Silence specific processes

✅ Process compose console log level

log_level: info # other options: "trace", "debug", "info", "warn", "error", "fatal", "panic"
processes:
  process2:
    command: "chmod 666 /path/to/file"

This setting controls the process-compose log level. The processes log level should be defined inside the process. It is recommended to support its definition with an environment variable that can be defined in process-compose.yaml

❌ Health Checks

❌ Is Alive

❌ Is Ready

❌ Auto Restart if not healthy

✅ Auto Restart on exit

process2:
  availability:
    restart: on-failure # other options: "always", "no" (default)
    backoff_seconds: 2  # default: 1
    max_restarts: 5 # default: 0 (unlimited)

✅ Environment Variables

✅ Per Process

process2:
  environment:
    - 'I_AM_LOCAL_EV=42'

✅ Global

processes:
  process2:
    command: "chmod 666 /path/to/file"
  environment:
    - 'I_AM_LOCAL_EV=42'		
environment:
  - 'I_AM_GLOBAL_EV=42'

❌ System Variables

❌ Process replica number

❌ Monitoring

❌ REST API

✅ Configuration

✅ Support .env file

✅ Override ${var} and $var from environment variables or .env values

❌ Merge 2 or more configuration files with override values

✅ Specify which configuration files to use

process-compose -f "path/to/process-compose-file.yaml"

✅ Auto discover configuration files

The following discovery order is used: compose.yml, compose.yaml, process-compose.yml, process-compose.yaml. If multiple files are present the first one will be used.

❌ Multi-platform

✅ Linux

❌ Windows

❌ macOS