Start and stop command using cobra cli

[Luxxgit2k4]

Reason/Context

Hello @yada , @lbroudoux the current cli does not have command for starting and stopping the server. Adding commands microcks-cli start and microcks-cli stop using Cobra will be easy while interacting with the server. Already started working on it.

Description

microcks-cli start: Runs the microcks server using docker in the background.

microcks-cli stop: Stops the server

Implementation ideas

No response

[lbroudoux]

This is one that could be kept as a Part of #97. What do you think @Harsh4902?

Just a note as I saw the PR proposed by @Luxxgit2k4: I think we should have a higher level of integration from what you proposed. IIRC the proposal was just executing a docker run process but I think the docker client actually has a Go library.

Also, ideally, we might be able to support Podman as well. This could come in a second step, but I think we must be prepared for that, maybe by proposing a --driver option like for minikube, if it cannot be easily detected automatically. Default could be to rely on docker (--driver=docker if not specified) but it could be nice also to have microcks start --driver=podman to rely on podman. Maybe we could check how Testcontainers is doing that because I think that it is able to automatically detect the container runtime...

[Harsh4902]

@lbroudoux I have created a POC for start and stop command here by using docker go client. I checked code of testcontainers. They are just using docker go client and for switching to podman, just setting up podman.sock's path into DOCKER_HOST env variable. Working on this part with my POC.

[lbroudoux]

Looks promising! I'm looking forward to executing my first microcks start command! Do not hesitate to push as soon as you have something running.

I assume that the launch of start command will also be tracked in a context file or something to later be able to check the status of microcks and also be able to execute microcks stop. Is it correct? Maybe we should create another issue to track this in parallel?

[Harsh4902]

@lbroudoux Oh yes! 😁. Definitely we have to do it. Thank you for suggesting, will raise an issue.

[Luxxgit2k4]

Hello @lbroudoux @Harsh4902 if you need help am happy to contribute 😊.

[Harsh4902]

@lbroudoux I have created a POC for start and stop command here by using docker go client. I checked code of testcontainers. They are just using docker go client and for switching to podman, just setting up podman.sock's path into DOCKER_HOST env variable. Working on this part with my POC.

@Luxxgit2k4 Please check the POC which I have mention in this comment and see if you can add any suggestions to this. I am happy to discuss further ideas.