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My ultimate Docker Compose template toolkit: Boilerplates v2

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My ultimate Docker Compose template toolkit: Boilerplates v2

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In this video, I demonstrate my brand-new open-source CLI tool boilerplates, which generate customizable Docker Compose templates with interactive and non-interactive workflows. We cover listing and searching the template library, setting user defaults, handling secrets, and generating Traefik, Authentik, and Portainer stacks.

Install Boilerplates v2

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/christianlempa/boilerplates/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

boilerplates --version

Manage the template library

boilerplates repo --help
boilerplates repo update

boilerplates list
boilerplates search <template_id>

boilerplates compose --help

Inspect a template

boilerplates show portainer

Generate a Docker Compose stack (Portainer example)

boilerplates generate portainer

boilerplates generate portainer --no-interactive \
  --var traefik_enabled=true \
  --var traefik_network=proxy \
  --var container_timezone=Europe/Berlin

Set user default variables

If you repeat the same options (e.g., Traefik network, timezone), set user defaults once:

python3 -m cli compose defaults --help

python3 -m cli compose defaults set traefik_enabled=true
python3 -m cli compose defaults set traefik_network=proxy
python3 -m cli compose defaults set container_timezone=Europe/Berlin

Defaults are applied to future generations and can be overridden per run with –var.

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