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Fissile converts existing BOSH final or dev releases into docker images.

It does this using just the releases, without a BOSH deployment, CPIs, or a BOSH agent.

Getting fissile

Prerequisites

Building fissile needs Go 1.12 or higher and Docker.

Build procedure

Fissile requires generated code using additional tools, and therefore isn't go get-able.

$ mkdir -p src                                  # make the directory src in your workspace
$ export GOPATH=$PWD                            # set GOPATH to current working directory
$ go get -d code.cloudfoundry.org/fissile       # Download sources
$ cd $GOPATH/src/code.cloudfoundry.org/fissile
$ make tools                              # install required tools; only needed first time
$ make docker-deps                        # pull docker images required to build
$ make all

Depending on your architecture you can use the fissile binary files from those directories: fissile/build/darwin-amd64 or fissile/build/linux-amd64.

Using Fissile

Please refer to the following additional documentation:

• Walkthrough on configuring and using fissile to build a docker image and corresponding Kubernetes resource definition
• Additional Kubernetes usage instructions and resource definition details
• Information on stemcells and how to build them
• Auto-generated usage reference

Releases using Fissile

• https://github.com/HeavyWombat/fissile-dev
• https://github.com/SUSE/SCF
• https://github.com/SUSE/nats-containerized-release
• https://github.com/SUSE/scf-helper-release
• https://github.com/SUSE/uaa-fissile-release

For testing and developing fissile itself we use the NATS containerized release.

Developing Fissile

In general, use of the default make target is preferred before making a pull request. This will run the unit tests, as well as various linters. To manually build fissile only, run make bindata build. This will run the necessary code generation before building the binary.

Testing

Run tests with make test (or use go test directly if you want to filter for specific tests, etc.) There are environment variables that can be set to adjust how tests are run:

Vendoring

Fissile uses dep for vendoring required source code. To update the vendored source tree, please run dep ensure and double-check that it has not done anything silly.

Using the Example NATS Release

Requirements:

• bosh-cli
• Docker

First compile your version of fissile and put it into the shells $PATH:

$ cd $GOPATH/src/code.cloudfoundry.org/fissile
$ make tools build
$ cp build/linux-amd64/fissile /usr/local/bin

Compiling the BOSH Releases

Clone the containerized NATS release repository: git clone https://github.com/SUSE/nats-container-deployment.

Inside the repository is a containerize.sh script. It will clone the git repositories of all involved BOSH releases and use the bosh CLI to create the releases. Finally the BOSH releases are build inside a Docker container.

Source the .envrc if you're running the commands from the script manually, it contains all the necessary configuration for Fissile.

Building the Docker Images

Requirements:

• minikube

A full Kubernetes installation is not necessary to run the containerized release. Install minikube and start it with minikube start.

Since the docker images need to be accessible from the Kubernetes cluster we are going to build them in minikube's Docker daemon. The deploy.sh script does that, by setting the variables from minikube docker-env.

With the environment from .envrc loaded, fissile build images --force will create two docker images:

$ fissile show image
docker.io/bosh/fissile-nats:5546d958767e1c5a6b9f1b057ec0ffee51c556df
docker.io/bosh/fissile-secret-generation:aff03b8b7fade23c98514a52fb020ad4c1738d71

It's also possible to build the images locally, tag them with a public repositories address and push them there.

Generating Helm Charts and Deploying to Kubernetes

Requirements:

• kubectl
• Helm

With the Docker images built we can now generate Helm charts:

$ fissile build helm --auth-type rbac --defaults-file defaults.txt

The generated chart is missing a basic Chart.yaml:

cat > "$FISSILE_OUTPUT_DIR/Chart.yaml" << EOF
apiVersion: 1
description: A Helm chart for NATS
name: my-nats
version: 1
EOF

After installing the Helm CLI and running helm init we can deploy the NATS release:

$ helm install nats-chart --name my-nats --namespace my-nats --values vars.yml

Removing the Example Release

Most work is done in the output folder. The Helm chart is generated in nats-chart/. These folders can be safely removed to start from scratch.

Use docker rmi to remove images from docker.

To remove the Helm deployment and release run helm delete --purge my-nats. To be sure all k8s resources are removed run kubectl delete namespace my-nats.

Acceptance Tests with Example Release

Several manual test cases around secret generation exist, which we run against the example release. We're currently evaluating more test cases and automated CI.