Edward

A command line tool for managing local instances of microservices.

Full documentation available at http://engblog.yext.com/edward/.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Installation
• Updating

Features

Start multiple services with one command

No need to start each service in its own terminal tab, just run edward start to build and launch multiple services in the background!

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See status for running services

Run edward status to see which of your services are up and running, how long for, and on which ports they are listening.

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Follow service logs

Follow stdout and stderr for one or more services with edward tail.

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Restart as needed

Made some changes? Run edward restart to re-build and re-launch a service.

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Auto-restart on edits

Edward will even automatically restart services when source files are changed.

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Generate configuration automatically

New services? Run edward generate to create a config file automatically.

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Edward can generate configuration for projects using:

• Go
• Docker
• ICBM
• Procfiles
• Other Edward config files

Don't see your project described above? No problem! Edward can be manually configured for any service that can be built and started from the command line.

Installation

Edward uses the vendor folder, and as such, Go 1.6 is required.

go get github.com/yext/edward

Updating

To update an existing install to the latest version of Edward, run:

go get -u github.com/yext/edward