Has anybody had any experience or heard something about Spawn? I need a nice way of spinning up DBs for dev environments and Spawn seems like a viable solution.

https://spawn.cc/

Isn't this docker with extra steps?

@sariel I'm hoping it's just plain DBs manageable though CLI

@ScriptCoded it looks nice, but very similar to how I would toss a DB instance up with docker.

Wouldn't surprise me if turned out to be a wrapper for docker or docker-compose.

@sariel I threw them an email. Let's see :)

This is hella relevant to my interests. Where I see it separating from just “database in docker” is that you get a lot of tooling seemingly baked into the container runtime specific to DB operations as opposed to running a MySQL image and fetching, installing and configuring ad hoc tooling.

So that looks convenient af.

I’m glad they advertise this as for dev and CI environments though: bet DB iops takes a massive hit with something like this though, and probably wouldn’t run it in for anything except for atomic sized workloads.

Gonna keep an eye on this though. I’m sure someone has asked them for this already, but glancing at the docs I don’t see SQLite support (maybe I’ve missed it?), which for something like this would make an excellent pairing.