Template Expansion: Comprehensive list of potential container templates

[joshrotenberg]

Overview

This issue tracks potential container templates to add to docker-wrapper, expanding beyond our current offerings to provide a comprehensive set of pre-configured containers for common development scenarios.

Current Templates

• ✅ Redis (basic)
• ✅ PostgreSQL
• ✅ MySQL
• ✅ MongoDB
• ✅ Nginx

Proposed Templates by Category

📦 Databases

SQL Databases

• MariaDB - MySQL fork with additional features
• CockroachDB - Distributed SQL database
• TimescaleDB - Time-series PostgreSQL extension
• ClickHouse - Column-oriented OLAP database
• SQLite (via container) - Lightweight SQL database

NoSQL Databases

• Cassandra - Wide column store
• DynamoDB Local - AWS DynamoDB for local development
• CouchDB - Document database with HTTP API
• Neo4j - Graph database
• ArangoDB - Multi-model database
• InfluxDB - Time-series database
• ScyllaDB - C++ reimplementation of Cassandra

Key-Value Stores

• Redis Cluster - Distributed Redis
• Redis Sentinel - High availability Redis
• Redis Stack - Redis with modules (JSON, Search, Graph)
• KeyDB - Multithreaded Redis fork
• Memcached - Simple caching system
• etcd - Distributed key-value store
• Consul - Service mesh with KV store

📨 Message Queues & Streaming

• RabbitMQ - Message broker
• Kafka - Distributed streaming platform
• Redpanda - Kafka-compatible streaming platform
• NATS - Cloud-native messaging system
• Apache Pulsar - Distributed pub-sub messaging
• ActiveMQ - Java-based message broker
• Mosquitto - MQTT broker
• ZeroMQ - High-performance messaging

🔍 Search & Analytics

• Elasticsearch - Search and analytics engine
• OpenSearch - Elasticsearch fork
• Solr - Search platform
• Meilisearch - Fast search API
• Typesense - Typo-tolerant search engine
• Zinc - Lightweight Elasticsearch alternative
• Quickwit - Cloud-native search engine

🌐 Web Servers & Proxies

• Apache HTTP Server - Classic web server
• Caddy - Modern web server with automatic HTTPS
• Traefik - Cloud-native reverse proxy
• HAProxy - Load balancer and proxy
• Envoy - Cloud-native proxy
• Kong - API gateway
• Linkerd - Service mesh

📊 Observability & Monitoring

• Prometheus - Metrics and alerting
• Grafana - Visualization platform
• Jaeger - Distributed tracing
• Zipkin - Distributed tracing
• Loki - Log aggregation
• Tempo - Distributed tracing backend
• VictoriaMetrics - Prometheus-compatible metrics

🗄️ Storage & Backups

• MinIO - S3-compatible object storage
• SeaweedFS - Distributed file system
• GlusterFS - Scalable network filesystem
• Ceph - Distributed storage
• Restic - Backup program
• Rclone - Cloud storage sync

🔧 Development Tools

• GitLab - DevOps platform
• Gitea - Lightweight Git service
• Jenkins - CI/CD automation
• SonarQube - Code quality platform
• Nexus - Repository manager
• Artifactory - Binary repository manager
• Vault - Secrets management
• Keycloak - Identity management

📧 Email & Communication

• MailHog - Email testing tool
• MailCatcher - Email testing tool
• Maildev - SMTP server for development
• Postfix - Mail server
• Dovecot - IMAP/POP3 server

🤖 AI/ML Infrastructure

• JupyterLab - Interactive computing
• MLflow - ML lifecycle platform
• TensorBoard - TensorFlow visualization
• Kubeflow - ML workflows on Kubernetes
• MindsDB - ML database layer
• Label Studio - Data labeling
• Ollama - Local LLM runner

🔐 Security & Authentication

• OpenLDAP - Directory service
• FreeIPA - Identity management
• Authentik - Identity provider
• Authelia - Authentication portal
• OAuth2 Proxy - OAuth2/OIDC proxy

📝 Content Management

• WordPress - CMS/blogging platform
• Ghost - Publishing platform
• Strapi - Headless CMS
• Directus - Data platform
• Drupal - CMS framework

🔄 Data Processing

• Apache Spark - Unified analytics engine
• Apache Flink - Stream processing
• Apache Airflow - Workflow orchestration
• Prefect - Workflow automation
• Dagster - Data orchestration
• Apache NiFi - Data flow automation

🎮 Gaming & Simulation

• Minecraft Server - Game server
• Valheim Server - Game server
• Redis Gaming Leaderboard - Pre-configured for gaming

Implementation Approach

1. Prioritization Criteria:

   • Community demand (👍 reactions on this issue)
   • Development utility
   • Ease of implementation
   • Maintenance burden

2. Template Features to Include:

   • Health checks
   • Persistence volumes
   • Common environment configurations
   • Connection string builders (where applicable)
   • Security best practices
   • Resource limits
   • Clustering/HA configurations

3. Organization Structure:

   src/template/
   ├── database/
   ├── messaging/
   ├── search/
   ├── web/
   ├── observability/
   ├── storage/
   ├── devtools/
   ├── email/
   ├── ml/
   ├── security/
   ├── cms/
   └── processing/
   

Community Input Welcome!

Please:

• 👍 templates you'd like to see implemented
• Comment with additional template suggestions
• Share specific configuration requirements
• Volunteer to implement templates you're familiar with

Related Issues

• feat: add Redis Enterprise template with cluster initialization support #131 - Redis Enterprise Template
• feat: add Redis Cluster template with multi-node setup #132 - Redis Cluster Template
• feat: add Redis Sentinel template for high availability setup #133 - Redis Sentinel Template
• feat: add Redis Stack template with all Redis modules #134 - Redis Stack Template
• refactor: organize Redis templates hierarchically with granular feature gating #135 - Hierarchical Template Organization

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Note: This is a living document. We'll update it based on community feedback and implementation progress.

[joshrotenberg]

Update: Completed Templates ✅

Great progress on Redis templates! The following have been implemented:

✅ Completed Templates

Redis Family

• ✅ Redis (basic) - Complete with persistence, password, memory limits
• ✅ Redis Cluster - Multi-node setup with automatic cluster initialization (feat: add Redis Cluster template with multi-node setup #132, PR feat: add Redis Cluster template with multi-node setup #138)
• ✅ Redis Sentinel - High availability with master/replica/sentinel orchestration (feat: add Redis Sentinel template for high availability setup #133, PR feat: add Redis Sentinel template with documentation updates #142)
• ✅ Redis Stack - Redis with all modules (JSON, Search, Graph, TimeSeries, Bloom) (feat: add Redis Stack template with all Redis modules #134, PR feat: Redis template improvements with Stack support and separate RedisInsight #141)
• ✅ RedisInsight - Redis management UI (PR feat: Redis template improvements with Stack support and separate RedisInsight #141)

Databases

• ✅ PostgreSQL - With init scripts, extensions, custom configuration
• ✅ MySQL - With init scripts, custom configuration
• ✅ MongoDB - With replica set support, custom configuration

Web Servers

• ✅ Nginx - With SSL support, custom config, static content serving

🚧 In Progress

• Redis Enterprise (feat: add Redis Enterprise template with cluster initialization support #131) - Next on the roadmap for completing the Redis suite

The Redis template family is now quite comprehensive, offering everything from basic caching to full high-availability deployments!