Your Favorite IRIS Terminal Aliases In Docker Dev Environment!

Hi Devs!

Recently I was impressed by @Dan Pasco's article where he shares also how he uses terminal aliases. 

Terminal aliases is a very powerful tool for developers and sys admins if you often need to call some cumbersome terminal expressions and make it shorter and cleaner. Here is the documentation.
Yes! 

But what about Docker environments? What if you are fan of Docker dev environments but also want to keep using your favorite aliases with Docker as well?

Turned out it is very possible.

Just add .iris_init file (example) into your GitHub repository and copy it into the home folder of IRIS user - /home/irisowner in this case. Which can be nicely done with this command in Dockerfile:

COPY .iris_init /home/irisowner/.iris_init

I've added a few in basic objectscript and iris-dev templates (mostly borrowed from isc-one-liners project):

:alias enablebi do EnableDeepSee^%SYS.cspServer("/csp/"_$zcvt($namespace,"L")) ;
:alias ssl x "n $namespace set $namespace=""%SYS"", name=$S(""$1""="""":""DefaultSSL"",1:""$1"") do:'##class(Security.SSLConfigs).Exists(name) ##class(Security.SSLConfigs).Create(name)" ;
:alias createdb do $SYSTEM.SQL.Execute("CREATE DATABASE $1") ;
:alias installipm s r=##class(%Net.HttpRequest).%New(),r.Server="pm.community.intersystems.com",r.SSLConfiguration="ISC.FeatureTracker.SSL.Config" d r.Get("/packages/zpm/latest/installer"),$system.OBJ.LoadStream(r.HttpResponse.Data,"c") ;
:alias add%all x "n $namespace set $namespace=""%SYS"",P(""Globals"")=""%DEFAULTDB"",sc=##class(Config.Namespaces).Create(""%All"",.P)" ;
:alias exportglobal d $System.OBJ.Export("$1.GBL","$2$1.xml") ;

Here is how you can use them, e.g. Global export:

USER>:exportglobal AAA /home/irisowner/
d $System.OBJ.Export("AAA.GBL","/home/irisowner/AAA.xml") ;

Exporting to XML started on 01/25/2024 11:58:37
Exporting global: ^AAA
Export finished successfully.

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Or add ssl configuration with a specific name:

USER>:ssl web
x "n $namespace set $namespace=""%SYS"", name=$S(""web""="""":""DefaultSSL"",1:""web"") do:'##class(Security.SSLConfigs).Exists(name) ##class(Security.SSLConfigs).Create(name)" ;

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Hope you find it useful as I do! :)

Please, fill free to share your favorite aliases - we'll add it in the basic template as well.