Spin is a bash utility designed to replicate production environments locally using Docker. It simplifies the developer experience by centralizing infrastructure configuration in a single file and ensuring compatibility across MacOS, Windows, and Linux. Spin leverages officially supported Docker features and best practices, integrating technologies like Docker Desktop, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm Mode, and Ansible.
Installation is straightforward, with support for macOS, Windows, Linux, Composer, NPM, and Yarn. The tool offers commands such as spin new to create new projects and spin init to integrate Spin into existing projects. Spin also includes GitHub Actions templates and supports GitLab CI, enhancing CI/CD workflows.
Spin incorporates several open-source projects, including the Spin Ansible Collection for server provisioning, serversideup/docker-build-action for building Docker images, serversideup/docker-swarm-deploy-github-action for Docker Swarm deployments, and optimized PHP Docker images for Laravel.
The project is open-source, encouraging community contributions in bug fixes, feature requests, documentation improvements, and support via GitHub Discussions or Discord. Spin is maintained by Server Side Up, a two-person team dedicated to open-source development.
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