Installing and managing development dependencies for the various projects is a chore and one thing that can improve your everyday workflow is the usage of containers.

Tent is a CLI tool for running development dependencies such as MySQL, Mongo, ElasticSearch, etc inside pre-configured containers using simple one-liners.

Running containers can be accessed via their exposed ports and can be paired with any other application on your system.

Starting a service such as mysql is as simple as executing tent start mysql and you’ll never have to look back at it.