Cookiecutter Templates

Cookiecutter Templates to bootstrap different projects.

For standards and conventions used in this repository, please refer to the section at the end of this README.

Install Cookiecutter

Installation on macOS

On macOS with homebrew present, Cookiecutter is available as a ready to install package using the following shell command.

brew install cookiecutter

Install on Debian / Ubuntu / Windows WSL

On a Debian based distribution, Cookiecutter is available as a ready to install package using the following shell command.

sudo apt-get install cookiecutter

General Installation Instructions

If your setup differs, you can read the general installation instructions from the Cookiecutter documentation.

Using the Cookiecutter Template

The most simple way to use the cookiecutter templates is to prepare a ~/.cookiecutterrc file. For this repository with the following content, replacing the placeholder values.

default_context:
  user_fullname: "Your Name"
  user_email: "[email protected]"
  user_name: "username, eg. your github username"
  team_name: "teamname, eg. your github user/teamname"
  team_email: "[email protected]"
  repository_namespace: "myteam"
#  project_name: "Does not make sense to give a default here"
#  project_description_short: "Does not make sense to give a default here."
#  repository_name: "Does not make sense to give a default here"
#  container_name: "Does not make sense to give a default here"
  container_registry_namespace: "myteam"
abbreviations:
  refnode: [email protected]:refnode/cookiecutter-templates.git
# for testing purpose
# cookiecutters_dir: "."

Standards / Conventions / Resources

The repository uses/follows the following standards/conventions:

• Git Basic Standards (ignore / attributes)

• (Git) Conventional Commits

• Git Pre-Commit Checks

• Editor Configuration

• direnv - Directory based settings management

• AsciiDoc Format