[spmurrayzzz]

Have you tried using a process manager like supervisord[1] or pm2[2]? The former has a pretty clean declarative interface that you could view as a replacement for something like a docker-compose file or a k8s pod config.

You don't get any containerization/isolation benefits obviously, but it sounds like you've already accepted that.

[1] http://supervisord.org/ [2] https://github.com/Unitech/pm2

[qbasic_forever]

Foreman is a nice, easy to use local process manager. It's what heroku and such use with a simple Procfile for defining multiple processes, but it would work fine for running multiple developer tools, testing services/dependencies, etc.

There are multiple implementations of it, heres the canonical one: https://github.com/ddollar/foreman And heres a go version that's easier to install and use: https://github.com/ddollar/forego

[snake_case]

And another possibly lighter alternative is something like concurrently: https://github.com/open-cli-tools/concurrently