feat: Simplify plugin architecture of Move2Kube

kmehant commented 6 months ago

Motivation

Move2Kube is a command-line tool for automating creation of Infrastructure as code (IaC) artifacts. The tool has a powerful plugin based transformer architecture where developers can write their own custom transformer plugins to fulfil their re-platforming needs. However, concepts like path mappings etc could be simplified for better adoption.

Expected Outcome

Come up with a simplified alternative design for plugin architecture for Move2Kube.
Migrate existing components to support the new design with backward compatibility (good to have).

Example

Writing a Move2Kube custom transformer needs developers to understand various concepts such as path mappings etc, can we reduce the learning overhead by simplifying this architecture?

Resources

Transformer - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/concepts/transformer Path Mapping - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/concepts/path-mapping Artifact - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/concepts/artifact Transformer types - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/transformers

Getting Started

If you are familiar with Golang you can start by trying to build the Move2Kube CLI https://github.com/konveyor/move2kube Follow the tutorial on how to use it to do a transformation https://move2kube.konveyor.io/tutorials/cli
Details on the Transformer architecture in Move2Kube
- Transformer concept - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/concepts/transformer
- Path Mapping concept - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/concepts/path-mapping
- Artifact concept - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/concepts/artifact
- Different set of transformers - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/transformers

HarikrishnanBalagopal commented 6 months ago

For those coming from LFX, this issue https://github.com/konveyor/move2kube/issues/1063 has a few more details on how to get started with Move2Kube.

HarikrishnanBalagopal commented 6 months ago

anshikavashistha commented 5 months ago

Greetings to you @kmehant @HarikrishnanBalagopal ,hope you are doing well!

I just came upon this issue while exploring the move2kube repo & I feel that this would be the perfect project for me to tackle, as part of the LFX spring program! A couple reasons:

I'm a beginner in Go, have just started building a few side projects and gaining practical understanding through that & reading the problem statement.
I have contributed to Kubernetes test infra repo and have some sort of knowledge about Kubernetes

anshikavashistha commented 5 months ago

For LFX spring program, along with resume and cover letter, Is there any another prerequisite which we have to do while applying to LFX program ?

kmehant commented 5 months ago

https://github.com/konveyor/move2kube/issues/1131#issuecomment-1930183710

Nothing apart from that, please complete and submit your application on the LFX Portal.

anshikavashistha commented 5 months ago

Okay Thank you

xevor11 commented 5 months ago

Would it be possible to get a review of the cover letter/proposal, in addition, is there a specific deadline for when we can expect to hear back?

nate-double-u commented 5 months ago

Would it be possible to get a review of the cover letter/proposal, in addition, is there a specific deadline for when we can expect to hear back?

@xevor11, there are a lot of applicants, I wouldn't expect individual tailored critiques of applications from the mentors. Regarding when you may hear back about applications, please see the published program timeline.

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