rex

Small tool for remote command execution via hook

Installation

Download binary from releases page

Make binary executable sudo chown $USER:$USER rex

Usage

1. Simply define 3 variables at .env.rex file (described below, example is provided at repo .env.rex.example).
2. Run binary with ./rex & or nohup ./rex &
3. Trigger command execution with GET-request http://#host#:#REX_PORT#/
4. Wait till end of execution and see stdout/stderr of command at response
5. Profit

Environment variables

REX_USER - username used for basic auth

REX_PASSWORD - password used for basic auth

REX_COMMAND - command that should be executed (e.g: docker-compose restart webserver, date, ...)

REX_PORT - http webserver port

Healthcheck

http://#host#:#REX_PORT#/health can be used as healthcheck of rex service (responses with 200 if service is up)