Engage - Beast Mode Debugging!

Engage is meant as a custom lightweight container image meant for providing a go-to debugging/troubleshooting environment in multiple scenarios. View the Dockerfile to see everything installed (i.e. dig, curl, telnet, psql, nmap, and more!).

Run Locally:

docker run --name engage inanimate/engage
docker exec -it engage /bin/bash

In Kubernetes:

kubectl apply -f deploy/deployment.yaml

Other objects exist in deploy/ like ingress, pdb, and service!

Echo Server

Additionally, https://github.com/inanimate/echo-server is included which provides a simple http server that prints out basic details and other useful troubleshooting information.

Snippet of example output when you curl localhost:

Welcome to echo-server!  Here's what I know.
  > Head to /ws for interactive websocket echo!

-> My hostname is: echo-server-4282639374-6bvzg

-> My Pod Name is: echo-server-4282639374-6bvzg
-> My Pod Namespace is: playground
-> My Pod IP is: 10.2.1.30

-> Requesting IP: 10.2.2.0:40974
.......

This is immensely helpful when testing ingress flows through load balancers, verifying network policies, and other introspective details of the environment a container runs in! It also provides a Websocket connection for further testing.

HTTPSTAT (Curl on Steroids!)

Another utility, httpstat is also included (the go version: https://github.com/davecheney/httpstat) which gives you amazing http response details.

bash-4.4# httpstat google.com

Connected to 216.58.192.174:443

HTTP/2.0 301 Moved Permanently
Server: gws
Alt-Svc: h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-T051=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-Q050=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-Q046=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-Q043=":443"; ma=2592000,quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="46,43"
Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000
Content-Length: 220
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:59:09 GMT
Expires: Sun, 14 Mar 2021 15:59:09 GMT
Location: https://www.google.com/
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-Xss-Protection: 0

  DNS Lookup   TCP Connection   TLS Handshake   Server Processing   Content Transfer
[     18ms  |          19ms  |        103ms  |             46ms  |             0ms  ]
            |                |               |                   |                  |
   namelookup:18ms           |               |                   |                  |
                       connect:37ms          |                   |                  |
                                   pretransfer:141ms             |                  |
                                                     starttransfer:187ms            |
                                                                                total:188ms

Loop Mode

Engage can take a command you give it (i.e. via docker-compose) and run it in a while loop with interval $LOOPINTERVAL for you!

To enable set both these environment variables (LOOPINTERVAL is any accepted timeframe sleep supports),

LOOPMODE=enabled
LOOPINTERVAL=10000s

and pass your desired script or one-liner for immediate execution and recurring execution every $LOOPINTERVAL

An example command:

docker run -ti inanimate/engage 'export NICEDATE=`date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M"` && echo "starting backup with date $NICEDATE"'

This is especially useful if you need to run continuous checks on a process, make simple backup patterns, or have other fun usecases!

Note, the loop will continue indefinitely as while true does. Please ensure you kill the process to stop your desired script from continually running!

Please feel free to open issues of cool features or other utilities you'd like to see. Also, feel free to use this as a base to fork from!