porter-paconn

README

A Porter Mixin Skeleton

This repository contains the skeleton structure of a Porter Mixin. You can clone this repository and use it as a starting point to build new mixins. The structure of this project matches closely with existing Porter Mixins.

1. Create a new repository in GitHub using this repository as a template.
2. Go 1.13 or higher is required. You can choose to clone into the GOPATH or not according to preference.
3. Rename the cmd/paconn and pkg/paconn directories to cmd/YOURMIXIN and pkg/YOURMIXIN.
4. Find the text github.com/squillace/porter-paconn in the repository and change it to github.com/ralph squillace/YOURREPO.
5. Find any remaining paconn text in the repository and replace it with YOURMIXIN.
6. In pkg/YOURMIXIN/version.go replace ralph squillace with the name you would like displayed as the mixin author. This value is displayed as the author of your mixin when porter mixins list is run.
7. Replace the ralph squillace instances in pkg/YOURMIXIN/version_test.go with the name used above.
8. Run make build xbuild test to try out all the make targets and verify that everything executes without failing.
9. Run make install to install your mixin into the Porter home directory. If you don't already have Porter installed, install it first.
10. Now your mixin is installed, you are ready start customizing and iterating on your mixin!

Customize your mixin

This mixin is ready to wrap an existing command-line tool. The shortest path would be to edit build.go to add the instructions to download the tool and you are all set. It will look and feel like the gcloud or aws mixins, both of which are built on top of the exec mixin.

Edit the Build function in pkg/paconn/build.go. Here you can add any Dockerfile lines that you require to download and install additional tools, configuration files, etc necessary for your mixin. The Build function should write the Dockerfile lines to m.Out which is a pipe from the mixin back to porter.

Search for TODO in the code and follow the instructions to customize the mixin.

Here is an example from the aws mixin, where it downloads the latest version of of the aws binary and installs it:

https://github.com/deislabs/porter-aws/blob/001c19bfe06d248143353a55f07a42c913579481/pkg/aws/build.go#L7

This is enough to have a working mixin. Run make build install and then test it out with a bundle.

That will get you started but make sure to read the mixin developer documentation for how to create a full featured mixin:

• Mixin Architecture
• Mixin Commands
• Distributing Mixins

Once ready for primetime, don't forget to revisit this README.md and update/replace it with details on your mixin.

Project Structure

In the cmd/paconn directory, you will find a cli built using spf13/cobra. The CLI contains a go file for each basic capability a Mixin should implement:

• build
• schema
• version
• install
• upgrade
• invoke
• uninstall

Each of these command implementations have a corresponding Mixin implementation in the pkg/paconn directory. Each of the commands above is wired into an empty implementation in pkg/paconn that needs to be completed. In order to build a new Mixin, you need to complete these implementations with the relevant technology. For example, to build a Cloud Formation mixin, you might implement the methods in pkg/paconn using the AWS Go SDK.

Provided capabilities

This skeleton mixin project brings some free capabilities:

File System Access and Context

Porter provides a Context package that has helpful mechanisms for accessing the File System using spf13/afero. This makes it easy to provide mock File System implementations during testing. The Context package also provides a mechanism to encapsualte stdin, stdout and stderr so that they can easily be passed from cmd/paconn code to implementing pkg/paconn code.

Template and Static Asset Handling

The project already includes Packr V2 for dealing with static files, such as templates or other content that is best modeled outside of a Go file. You can see an example of this in pkg/paconn/schema.go.

Basic Schema

The project provides an implementation of the paconn schema command that is mostly functional. To fully implement this for your mixin, you simply need to provide a valid JSON schema. For reference, consult pkg/paconn/schema/schema.json.

Basic Tests

The project provides some very basic test skeletons that you can use as a starting point for building tests for your mixin.

Makefile

The project also includes a Makefile that will can be used to both build and install the mixin. The Makefile also includes a TODO publish target that shows how you might publish the mixin and generate an mixin feed for easily sharing your mixin.