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Tiny automation pipelines. Bring CI/CD to the smallest projects. Self-hosted, Lightweight, CLI only.
Pipelight - Tiny automation pipelines.
Automate your most boring and repetitive tasks.
📦 A lightweight tool for CICD
Pipelight is a Rust based small(13Mb) cli tool to be used from inside a terminal.
- Define pipelines using typescript, toml, hcl and yaml.
- Trigger on events: git hooks, file changes...
Checkout the Documentation for a much friendly approach and a deeper understanding.
Define pipelines with a programming language.
Fold your bash commands into an object Pipeline{ Step{ Command }}
written in
Typescript.
As long as you know javascript, you are ready to go with your favorite syntax flavor.
Use a verbose and declarative syntax (Objects API).
const my_pipeline = {
name: "build_my_website",
steps: [
{
name: "clean directory",
commands: ["rm -rf ./dist"],
},
{
name: "build",
commands: ["pnpm install", "pnpm lint", "pnpm build"],
},
],
};
Use the provided sweet shorthands (Helpers API).
const my_pipeline = pipeline("build website", () => [
step("clean directory", () => [`rm -rf ${build_dir}`]),
step("build", () => ["pnpm install", "pnpm lint", "pnpm build"]),
step("send to host", () => [`scp -r ${build_dir}`]),
step("do stuffs on host", () => [
ssh("host", () => ["systemctl restart nginx"]),
]),
]);
Define pipelines with a configuration language
For your most simple pipelines.
Toml
[[pipelines]]
name = "test"
[[pipelines.steps]]
name = "build"
commands = ["pnpm install", "pnpm build"]
[[pipelines.triggers]]
branches = ["master","dev"]
actions= ["pre-push", "pre-commit"]
Hcl
# A pipeline
pipelines = [{
name = "test"
steps = [{
name = "build"
commands = ["pnpm install", "pnpm build"]
}]
triggers = [{
branches = ["master","dev"]
actions = ["pre-push", "pre-commit"]
}]
}]
Yaml
pipelines:
- name: test
steps:
- name: build
commands:
- pnpm install
- pnpm build
- triggers:
- branches:
- master
- dev
actions:
- pre-push
- pre-commit
Automatic triggers
Add automatic triggers to your pipeline.
If you want to run tests on file change or deploy to production on push to master.
# enable watcher and git hooks.
pipelight enable git-hooks
pipelight enable watcher
pipeline.add_trigger({
branch: ["master"],
actions: ["pre-push"],
});
🫦 Pretty and verbose logs
Get the pipeline most relevant informations or dive into the steps and commands standard outputs.
Get the pipeline status, event, execution time... and more.
pipelight logs

Get a tranparent outputs of every subprocesses.
pipelight logs -vvvv

🛠️ Install
[!IMPORTANT]
Pipelight can now be installed under MacOs and Windows WSL
Checkout the instruction guide for your favorite package manager.
🚀 Get started!
Create a default configuration file pipelight.ts
in your project root
directory with:
pipelight init
Try the harmless default pipeline:
pipelight run
And explore logs:
pipelight logs -vvvv
Community
Reach the community whenever you need support or software improvements. On discord or on telegram at @Areskul or send a mail at [email protected].
Roadmap
Support other configuration languages:
Can't tell the difference between them, but Rustacean made crates for it.
- [x] feat: add support for hashicorp hcl
- [ ] feat: add support for apple pkl
- [ ] feat: add support for CNCF kcl
Crate:
- [ ] doc: add example for pipelight_utils crate
Javascript helpers:
- [ ] feat: add helper for jucenit proxy
- [ ] refactor: rewrite docker helpers in rust wasm
Cli:
- [ ] feat: add a tui interface with ratatui
- [ ] feat: add a live view for processing pipelines
Community:
- [x] feat: add a news page on Documentation website
- [ ] refactor: move out of discord
Licensed under GNU GPLv2 Copyright (C) 2023 Areskul