Try out GoReleaser for release process

[tashian]

https://goreleaser.com/intro/

[maraino]

In the limitations, goreleaser mentions CGO, that is going to be important when we add CGO and non-CGO binaries, for supporting things like YubiKey and PKCS#11 modules in the cli. But it links to this project https://github.com/troian/golang-cross

[tashian]

I've written a basic .goreleaser.yml that builds multiarch binaries, archives, and docker images (non-CGO) using our naming & dir structure conventions.

To try it:

• Install GoReleaser on your machine
• Checkout branch carl/goreleaser.
• Run goreleaser --snapshot --skip-publish --rm-dist
• See the output in the dist folder.

Notes:

• GoReleaser will build files with a v prefix before the version number eg. step_linux_v0.15.4-rc.4-next_amd64.tar.gz. This is a goreleaser bug, but it only does this for snapshot builds; for actual releases it will not include the v prefix.
• I changed the Dockerfile to stop building step inside the container. This may break step-ca's docker build process
• And, when we need CGO support, we'll need to build inside containers anyway.

TODOs to replace current Makefile/GH Actions build process:

• [x] Configure source archive for the Homebrew packager (see our current make archive rule)
• [x] Configure Scoop packaging
• [x] Move to GitHub Actions workflow (see GoReleaser official GH action and GoReleaser GitHub Actions doc)
• [x] Add darwin arm64 support (will require Go 1.16)
• [x] Test GitHub release creation & Scoop packagers
• [x] Configure GitHub release creation
• [x] Build with -trimpath

(What else?)

Version 2:

• [ ] Review Docker build — do we push to registries other than DockerHub?
• [ ] Add CGO support (this will be a fair bit of work - see this Medium post and this issue)
• [ ] Add Homebrew deployment (this will require step & step-ca pkgs to be separated out & configured w/dependencies. And if we are going to do that, it will make sense to move certificates to GoReleaser first)

[maraino]

Is it possible to build with -trimpath?

[tashian]

@maraino yes— I've added this.

[hslatman]

Closing this as GoReleaser is now in use.