Plugins

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Plugins Development

Following available plugin categories:

Client Module Plugins - Implements Custom Client Components for deploying step's sctions on the target server (or unit)
Deploy Command Module Plugins - Implements Custom Commands used in feeds and/or feed fragments
Client Commands Module Plugins - Implements features for required provided or custom Client Commands plugins injection, used and managed by any of the Client components.

Plugins

In linux system it's possible to write new features using the current client ones or developing new features. It refers to a Go-Language Build-In technology. Please read following documntation: Go Language Plugin Package

Client Module Plugins

In order to develop a client module plugin please follow provided instructions:

Plugin(s) have own interfaces, available in plug-in operations, as follow:

For client(s) plugins (definition of custom clients), you can :

Develop Proxy Function interface as described and with same name of function proxy.getModules()
Develop Client Wrapper as described in the interface ConnectionHandler

An example of this kind of plugin is available in following repositories:

Go! Deploy Client Modules

Buil-in clients:

SSH Protocol
Go! TLS/TCP Client Protocol

Deploy Command Module Plugins

In order to develop a deploy command module plugin please follow provided instructions:

Plugin(s) have own interfaces, available in plug-in operations, as follow:

Develop Proxy Function interface GetModulesMap
Develop a Discovery Function and allocating a map of string (unique plugin name) and ProxyStub that contains the discovery function, providing the command Converter component. Converter interface is used to parse the code from the Feed file and provifing a runnable element implementing StepRunnable interface, filled with parsed data.

An example of this kind of plugin is available in following repositories:

Go-Deploy Client Modules

Client Command Module Plugins

Please refer to instructions for available clients:

Go! TLS/TCP Client

Enable plugins injection

You can configure plugin(s) availability, file extension and base folder via command line start-up command or configuration file for any of the available plugin engines/proxies.