dew VS toolship

Compare dew vs toolship and see what are their differences.

dew

Run everything in (Docker) containers (by efrecon)

toolship

A framework to containerize dev tools (by yapret)
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dew

Posts with mentions or reviews of dew. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-17.
  • RHttp: REPL for HTTP
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024
    I've built dew for this. It "knows" about many of those apps (and where to get a container from). https://github.com/efrecon/dew. Adding a term app is usually just a matter of crafting an .env file with the necessary settings.
  • Toolship: A (More) Secure Workstation
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2023
    I have written dew (https://github.com/efrecon/dew) for more or less the same purpose. I hardly keep any binary (and dependency) in my installation, they are all inside containers that I can easily dispose of at any time. The default in dew is to run them as your user. At the command prompt, instead of running, for example, kubectl xxx, I run dew kubectl xxx. It's a bit slower but provides an increased level of security.
  • You Don't Need to Rebuild Your Development Docker Image on Every Code Change
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2021
    In the past few weeks, I have spent some time and released dew [0]. It helps encapsulating this kind of setups in configuration and minimising typing. dew is still evolving, but it has served me well.

    [0]: https://github.com/efrecon/dew

toolship

Posts with mentions or reviews of toolship. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-20.
  • Toolship: A (More) Secure Workstation
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2023
    No, I don't think you're missing anything, other than you'd only mount the directories you want the tool / development environment to have access to. Take for instance the `npm` command [1], it mounts `$PWD` so if you install a compromised package then it can go through the folder you're in, but it can't then go up directories and sniff around your home directory. It would also only have access to the environment variables that have been configured for the container, which in this case would also include AWS credentials.

    1 - https://github.com/yapret/toolship/blob/main/src/node/functi...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dew and toolship you can also consider the following projects:

Docker Compose - Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

dotfiles - My dotfiles. Buyer beware ;)

skaffold - Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox

nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager

distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox

dockerfiles - Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.