Zaratan is a project management tool written in Go that allows users to easily manage and orchestrate Docker projects without extensive technical skills. It acts as a wrapper for the docker-compose library and lets users create and use custom templates to set up new projects quickly in a local environment. The tool was created by a student as a learning project and continues to be improved with features like a GUI, template registry, and integrated DNS management.

1. Zaratan
A project management tool

2. Zaratan
A project management tool
Docker, Golang and some sweet code magic 🦄

3. Zaratan - who we are
• @Wellnet
• @lussoluca (Luca Lusso)
• @r3vit (Marco Capobussi)
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4. Zaratan - Lightning talk
• When and why
• What
• How
• (demo)
• Future
• Fun facts and end
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5. Zaratan - story (start)
• We will manage our lighting talk as a journey
through Golang and Docker.
• This tool named “Zaratan” was born in the mid of
last year (summer 2016) when a CS student
(@r3vit) was looking for something interesting to
learn, in order to write is thesis for Bachelor’s
degree.
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6. Zaratan - story (start)
• With this lightning talk we would love to share
something about our journey building a first
prototype of this tool.
• This tool named “Zaratan” was born in the mid of
last year (summer 2016) when a CS student
(@r3vit) was looking for something interesting to
learn, in order to write is thesis for Bachelor’s
degree.
• (something about next story could be fictionalize)
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8. And the journey begins
Image credits: https://github.com/gengo/goship
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9. Zaratan - why?
• Docker and containers world is growing fast
Containers is based on old ideas but now with
Docker it’s the future, and it’s written in Go!
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10. Zaratan - why?
• Docker and containers world is growing fast
Containers is based on old ideas but now with
Docker it’s the future, and it’s written in Go!
• Managing containers needs technical skills
(and time!)

11. Zaratan - why?
• Docker and containers world is growing fast
Containers is based on old ideas but now with
Docker it’s the future, and it’s written in Go!
• Managing containers needs technical skills
(and time!)
Image credits: https://www.xkcd.com/1764/

12. Zaratan - why?
• Docker and containers world is growing fast
Containers is based on old ideas but now with
Docker it’s the future, and it’s written in Go!
• Managing containers needs technical skills
(and time!)
• And we need a tool that can easily allow to
manage Docker projects (for non developers too!)

13. Zaratan - what?
• Zaratan is:
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14. Zaratan - what?
• Zaratan is:
- a tool written in Go
❤

15. Zaratan - what?
• Zaratan is:
- a tool written in Go
- a wrapper of docker-compose library(libcompose)

16. Zaratan - what?
• Zaratan is:
- a tool written in Go
- a wrapper of docker-compose library(libcompose)
- that allows manage and orchestrate new projects

17. Zaratan - what?
• Zaratan is:
- a tool written in Go
- a wrapper of docker-compose library(libcompose)
- that allows manage and orchestrate new projects
- and let you create and use custom templates

18. Zaratan - what?
• Zaratan is:
- a tool written in Go
- a wrapper of docker-compose library(libcompose)
- that allows manage and orchestrate new projects
- and let you create and use custom templates
- in a local environment, in a easily and quick way!

19. Zaratan - How?
• Zaratan is based on libcompose, a docker-compose
management package written in Go
• Now is a CLI tool, using spf13/cobra package and gorilla/mux
for APIs
• Docker compose templates and wizard are managed by the
powerful text/template engine
• Data storing is performed in sqlite with mattn/go-sqlite3
• The glue that allow all the things to work together is (obviously)
go and some open source (not so obviously) logic 🤖
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20. Zaratan - demo
• Demo?
If we have time :)
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21. Zaratan - Future?
• a beautiful GUI
• a new, shiny template registry
• new templates! (Play stack, MEAN stack …)
• integrated local dns and domain proxy manager
• … and continuos improvement!
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22. Zaratan - fun facts - 1
• According to the tradition of the Physiologus and
medieval bestiaries, the Zaratan (aspidochelone)
is a fabled sea creature
Image credits: http://warriorsofmyth.wikia.com/wiki/Zaratan
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23. Zaratan - fun facts - 2
• The first man that described this (Zaratan)
creature was the italian “Plinio il vecchio”. He’s
considered also the first volcanologist in history!
Image credits: https://github.com/gengo/goship
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24. Zaratan - fun facts - 3
• The first stroke ended well, @r3vit graduated last
November (someone in academic world think
that wasn’t a waste of time, luckily 🤓)
Image credits: https://medium.com/travis-on-docker/
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25. Thank you!
• Time is out! Let us know what you think!
• (Zaratan will be released later this year as on gitlab with
open source license)
• For more info
@Wellnet
@lussoluca (Luca Lusso)
@r3vit (Marco Capobussi)
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