# Install emp with Homebrew

CLI for Empire. Version 0.13.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:emp
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install emp
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:emp
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.13.0
- **Source summary:** CLI for Empire
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/remind101/empire>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/remind101/empire>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- emp (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.13.0
## Project history and usage

`emp` is the command-line client for Empire, Remind's Heroku-like platform layer for deploying Docker applications onto Amazon ECS.

### Project history

Empire was created as a control layer on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service, exposing a subset of the Heroku Platform API so teams could keep Heroku-style workflows while running containerized services on AWS infrastructure.

### Adoption history

The README says Empire targeted small to medium startups running many microservices and needing more flexibility than Heroku. Its community surface included Read the Docs documentation, a Google group, and Slack, but the project remains tied closely to the Remind engineering context.

### How it is used

The `emp` CLI is documented as a fork of Heroku's `hk` command with Empire-specific features. A typical package-manager user installed `emp` to deploy tagged Docker images, scale Procfile process types, manage domains, and interact with an Empire API server from a terminal.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, `emp` captures a particular mid-2010s deployment moment: Heroku workflows, Docker images, ECS services, internal ELBs, and Route53 service discovery wrapped in a small CLI install.

### Related projects

- Empire explicitly relates to Amazon ECS, Docker, the Heroku Platform API, Heroku's `hk` CLI, and Remind's earlier `tugboat` work.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/remind101/empire>
- <https://empire.readthedocs.org/>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/emp.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/emp.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph