wait4x

Wait4X

Table of Contents

• Wait4X
  • Introduction
  • Installation
    • with Docker
    • From binary
      • Verify SHA256 Checksum
    • From package
      • Alpine Linux
      • Arch Linux (AUR)

Introduction

Wait4X is a cli tool to wait for everything! It can be wait for a port to open or enter to rquested state.

Features:

• Checking TCP connection
• Checking HTTP connection and also status code and response body
• Checking Redis connection (Ping request) and key existence
• Checking MySQL connection
• Checking PostgreSQL connection

Installation

There are many different methods to install Wait4X

with Docker

Wait4X provides automatically updated Docker images within Docker Hub. It is possible to always use the latest stable tag.

Pull the image from the docker index.

docker pull atkrad/wait4x:latest

then you can launch the wait4x container.

docker run --rm --name='wait4x' \
    atkrad/wait4x:latest --help

From binary

Choose the file matching the destination platform from the release page, copy the URL and replace the URL within the commands below:

curl -L https://github.com/atkrad/wait4x/releases/latest/download/wait4x-linux-amd64 -o /usr/local/bin/wait4x
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wait4x

Verify SHA256 Checksum

Wait4X generates checksum for all binaries with sha256sum to prevent against unwanted modification of binaries. To validate the binary, download the checksum file which ends in .sha256sum for the binary you downloaded and use the sha256sum command line tool.

curl -SLO https://github.com/atkrad/wait4x/releases/latest/download/wait4x-linux-amd64.sha256sum
sha256sum --check wait4x-linux-amd64.sha256sum

From package

You can find the Wait4X package in some Linux distributions.

On Alpine Linux

You can install the wait4x package from the official sources:

apk add wait4x

On Arch Linux (AUR)

You can install the wait4x package from the Arch User Repository:

yay -S wait4x