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Development

This doc explains the development workflow so you can get started contributing to Skaffold!

Requirements

You must install these tools:

  1. go: The language skaffold is built in (version >= go 1.12)

  2. git: For source control

  3. make: For building skaffold.

  4. golangci-lint: You can use the helper script to get golangci-lint.

    ./hack/install_golint.sh

Getting started

First you will need to setup your GitHub account and create a fork:

  1. Create a GitHub account
  2. Setup GitHub access via SSH
  3. Create and checkout a repo fork

Once you have those, you can iterate on skaffold:

  1. Build your dev version of skaffold
  2. Verify changes locally
  3. Run skaffold tests
  4. Build docs if you are making doc changes

When you're ready, you can create a PR!

You may also be interested in contributing to the docs.

Checkout your fork

To make local changes to skaffold and eventually submit a pull request to the repo, we recommend creating your own fork.

Once you've done this, clone your fork to your local machine:

git clone git@github.com:${YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME}/skaffold.git
cd skaffold
git remote add upstream git@github.com:GoogleContainerTools/skaffold.git
git remote set-url --push upstream no_push

Adding the upstream remote sets you up nicely for regularly syncing your fork.

Making a config change

Some changes to the skaffold code require a change to the skaffold config. These changes require a few extra steps:

  • Check to see what the latest config version was at the time of the last release. The easiest way to do this is to view the skaffold source on github at the last released tag.

  • Check the current config version in the code. This can be found in pkg/skaffold/schema/latest/config.go: look for something like

const Version string = "skaffold/v1betaXX"

  • If the config versions are different, do nothing. Somebody has already bumped the config version for this release cycle.

  • If the config versions are the same:

    • Run ./hack/new_version.sh to freeze the current config version and cut a new version.

    • Commit these generated changes, and submit a PR.

Once you've done this, continue making your changes locally, including the new config change. Any new config changes belong in pkg/skaffold/schema/latest/config.go. Do not edit the older config versions.

  • Be sure and update the documentation in pkg/skaffold/schema/<previous_config_version>/upgrade.go with any additions, removals, or updates you make to the config.

  • In case of backwards compatibility issues, update the Upgrade() method from the previous config version appropriately. This is usually required when a previously existing field in the config is changed, but not when a new field is added.

Note: the Upgrade() method is called by skaffold automatically for older config versions. This can also be done manually by users by running skaffold fix.

  • Finally, before committing your final changes and opening your pull request, be sure and run make test locally. This will regenerate the JSON schemas for the skaffold config with your new changes. Commit the resulting changes autogenerated by the scripts.

Building skaffold

To build with your local changes you have two options:

  1. Build the skaffold binary:

    make
./out/skaffold version

    You can then run this binary directly, or copy/symlink it into your path.

  2. Build and install the skaffold binary:

    make install
skaffold version

    This will install skaffold via go install (note that if you have manually downloaded and installed skaffold to /usr/local/bin, this will probably take precedence in your path over your $GOPATH/bin).

    If you are unsure if you are running a released or locally built version of skaffold, you can run skaffold version - output which includes dirty indicates you have built the binary locally.

Verifying local changes

If you are iterating on skaffold and want to see your changes in action, you can:

  1. Build skaffold
  2. Use the quickstart example

Testing skaffold

skaffold has both unit tests and integration tests.

Unit Tests

The unit tests live with the code they test and can be run with:

make test

In case you see a linter error such as:

make test
RUN hack/linter.sh
ERRO Running error: no such linter "gocritic"

re-run the hack/install_golint.sh script to upgrade golangci-lint.

Integration tests

The integration tests live in integration. They can be run with:

make integration

These tests require a Docker daemon, a Kubernetes cluster and all the tools used by every Builder and Deployer, such as kubectl, bazel, java, kustomize...

A way to run the integration tests without installing those tools and without depending on a Kubernetes cluster is to install kind and run:

make integration-in-kind

Running a subset of integration tests

You can select specific integration tests to run via the INTEGRATION_TEST_ARGS env var:

INTEGRATION_TEST_ARGS="-run=TestDev/" make integration

Running GCP specific integration tests

Another set of the integration tests require a GCP project because they will push to a GCR registry or use Cloud Build to build artifacts. Those tests can be run with:

GCP_ONLY=true make integration

These tests will be kicked off by reviewers for submitted PRs.

Building skaffold docs

The latest version of the skaffold site is based on the Hugo theme of the github.com/google/docsy template.

Testing docs locally

Before creating a PR with doc changes, we recommend that you locally verify the generated docs with:

make preview-docs

Once PRs with doc changes are merged, they will get automatically published to the docs for the latest build to https://skaffold-latest.firebaseapp.com. which at release time will be published with the latest release to https://skaffold.dev.

Previewing the docs on the PR

Mark your PR with docs-modifications label. Our PR review process will answer in comments in ~5 minutes with the URL of your preview and will remove the label.

Testing the Skaffold binary release process

Skaffold release process works with Google Cloud Build within our own project k8s-skaffold and the skaffold release bucket, gs://skaffold.

In order to be able to iterate/fix the release process you can pass in your own project and bucket as parameters to the build.

We continuously release builds under gs://skaffold/builds. This is done by triggering cloudbuild.yaml on every push to master.

To run a build on your own project:

gcloud builds submit --config deploy/cloudbuild.yaml --substitutions=_RELEASE_BUCKET=<personal-bucket>,COMMIT_SHA=$(git rev-parse HEAD) --project <personalproject>

We release stable versions under gs://skaffold/releases. This is done by triggering cloudbuild-release.yaml on every new tag in our Github repo.

To test a release on your own project:

gcloud builds submit --config deploy/cloudbuild-release.yaml --substitutions=_RELEASE_BUCKET=<personal-bucket>,TAG_NAME=testrelease_v1234 --project <personalproject>

To just run a release without Google Cloud Build only using your local Docker daemon, you can run:

make -j release GCP_PROJECT=<personalproject> RELEASE_BUCKET=<personal-bucket>

Creating a PR

When you have changes you would like to propose to skaffold, you will need to:

  1. Ensure the commit message(s) describe what issue you are fixing and how you are fixing it (include references to issue numbers if appropriate)
  2. Create a pull request

Reviews

Each PR must be reviewed by a maintainer. This maintainer will add the kokoro:run label to a PR to kick of the integration tests, which must pass for the PR to be submitted.