What about a nice Midnight Commander-style TUI to manage cells interactively?

[mpeterma@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

What about a nice Midnight Commander-style TUI to manage cells interactively? 🤔

https://netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de

#netbsd #cellsfornetbsd #tui #devops #modernretrocomputing

[mpeterma@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

For example....

[mpeterma@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

Further working on a modern out of the box experience of "Cells for NetBSD". Stay tuned 🙂

#netbsd #cells

[mpeterma@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

Running a massive fleet of 26 API-Servers, served by a Nginx gateway as ingress. This time with midnight commander theme ;-)

[zolaris@mastodon.illumos.cafe]

@mpeterma which language did you used to accomplish this?

[mpeterma@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@zolaris I used to prototype this in Go (using the great bubbletea library) but later decided for a rewrite in pure C and NetBSDs native curese library. I try to keep dependencies as low as possible for seamless integration with the build.sh system. Actually the "cellui" curses interface shown in this screenshot uses "cellmgr" as it backend. cellmgr is a hybrid of a end user cli with a stable machine runtime interface, completely written in sh. So we have a scriptable middleware layer. Took some iterations to get this right, and still some rough edges I will address.