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Published: May 22, 2017 License: Apache-2.0 Imports: 10 Imported by: 0

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Cloud Foundry CLI Plugin Repository (CLIPR)Build Status

This is a public repository for community created CF CLI plugins. To submit your plugin approval, please submit a pull request according to the guidelines below.

Submitting Plugins

  1. You need to have git installed
  2. Clone this repo git clone https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/cli-plugin-repo
  3. Include your plugin information in repo-index.yml, here is an example of a new plugin entry
- name: new_plugin
  description: new_plugin to be made available for the CF community
  version: 1.0.0
  created: 2015-01-31T00:00:00Z
  updated: 2015-01-31T00:00:00Z
  company:
  authors:
  - name: Sample-Author
    homepage: https://github.com/sample-author
    contact: contact@sample-author.io
  homepage: https://github.com/sample-author/new_plugin
  binaries:
  - platform: osx
    url: https://github.com/sample-author/new_plugin/releases/download/v1.0.0/echo_darwin
    checksum: 2a087d5cddcfb057fbda91e611c33f46
  - platform: win64
    url: https://github.com/sample-author/new_plugin/releases/download/v1.0.0/echo_win64.exe
    checksum: b4550d6594a3358563b9dcb81e40fd66
  - platform: linux32
    url: https://github.com/sample-author/new_plugin/releases/download/v1.0.0/echo_linux32
    checksum: f6540d6594a9684563b9lfa81e23id93

Please make sure the spacing and colons are correct in the entry. The following descibes each field's usage.

Field Description
name Name of your plugin, must not conflict with other existing plugins in the repo.
description Describe your plugin in a line or two. This desscription will show up when your plugin is listed on the command line
version Version number of your plugin, in [major].[minor].[build] form
created Date of first submission of the plugin, in ISO 8601 Combined Date and Time with Timezone Format
updated Date of last update of the plugin, in ISO 8601 Combined Date and Time with Timezone Format
company Optional field detailing company or organization that created the plugin
authors Fields to detail the authors of the plugin
name: name of author
homepage: Optional link to the homepage of the author
contact: Optional ways to contact author, email, twitter, phone etc ...
homepage Link to the homepage where the source code is hosted. Currently we only support open source plugins
binaries This section has fields detailing the various binary versions of your plugin. To reach as large an audience as possible, we encourage contributors to cross-compile their plugins on as many platforms as possible. Go provides everything you need to cross-compile for different platforms
platform: The os for this binary. Supports osx, linux32, linux64, win32, win64
url: HTTPS link to the binary file itself
checksum: SHA-1 of the binary file for verification
Please use a unique URL for each updated release version of your plugin, as each binary will have a unique checksum.
  1. After making the changes, fork the repository

  2. Add your fork as a remote

    cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/cli-plugin-repo
    git remote add your_name https://github.com/your_name/cli-plugin-repo
    
  3. Push the changes to your fork and submit a Pull Request

Releasing Plugins

Cross-compile to the 3 different operating systems

Golang supports cross compilation to several systems and architectures. Theres an in-depth article by Dave Cheney here explaining how to do it and how it works. You can also find a list of supported systems and architectures here under the $GOOS and $GOARCH section.

The CF cli supports 5 combinations:

  • linux/386 (known as linux32)
  • linux/amd64 (known as linux64)
  • windows/386 (known as win32)
  • windows/amd64 (known as win64)
  • darwin /amd64 (known as osx)

And at a minimum we want plugins to support linux64, win64 and osx.

So, with all that, you can generate those binaries for your plugin with the following snippet:

PLUGIN_PATH=$GOPATH/src/my-plugin
PLUGIN_NAME=$(basename $PLUGIN_PATH)

cd $PLUGIN_PATH
GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o ${PLUGIN_NAME}.linux64
GOOS=linux GOARCH=386 go build -o ${PLUGIN_NAME}.linux32
GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build -o ${PLUGIN_NAME}.win64
GOOS=windows GOARCH=386 go build -o ${PLUGIN_NAME}.win32
GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 go build -o ${PLUGIN_NAME}.osx
Checksums

Checksums in the repo-index.yml file are used to verify the integrity of the binaries, to prevent corrupted downloads from being installed. We use the sha-1 checksum algorithm, you can compute it with: shasum -a 1 <myfile>

So continuing the above snipped you'd do:

shasum -a 1 ${PLUGIN_NAME}.linux64
shasum -a 1 ${PLUGIN_NAME}.linux32
shasum -a 1 ${PLUGIN_NAME}.win64
shasum -a 1 ${PLUGIN_NAME}.win32
shasum -a 1 ${PLUGIN_NAME}.osx

Take note of those so that you can put them on repo-index.yml later when you have uploaded the binaries.

Release the binary publicly

You could use whatever file hosting you like here, the easiest and recommended one is GitHub releases, given that your plugin's code is already hosted on GitHub it might be the easiest solution too.

You can read more about GitHub Releases here but for the purposes of releasing your plugin you should upload those five binaries generated above on the same release.

You should then copy the resulting links for the uploaded binaries from the release page and put them on the repo-index.yml file.

This process can get a little tedious if you do it manually every time, that's why some plugin developers have automated it. You can probably put together scripts based on the snippets above to automate compiling, generating checksums and uploading the release to GitHub. There are tools available to manage GitHub releases such as this one.

Running your own Plugin Repo Server

Included as part of this repository is the CLI Plugin Repo (CLIPR), a reference implementation of a repo server. For information on how to run CLIPR or how to write your own, please see the CLIPR documentation here.

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