source-controller/DEVELOPMENT.md

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Development

Note: Please take a look at https://fluxcd.io/docs/contributing/flux/ to find out about how to contribute to Flux and how to interact with the Flux Development team.

Installing required dependencies

There are a number of dependencies required to be able to run the controller and its test suite locally:

The dependency libgit2 also needs to be installed to be able to run source-controller or its test-suite locally (not in a container).

In case this dependency is not present on your system (at the expected version), the first invocation of a make target that requires the dependency will attempt to compile it locally to hack/libgit2. For this build to succeed ensure the following dependencies are present on your system:

Triggering a manual build of the dependency is possible as well by running make libgit2. To enforce the build, for example if your system dependencies match but are not linked in a compatible way, append LIBGIT2_FORCE=1 to the make command.

Follow the instructions below to install these dependencies to your system.

macOS

$ # Ensure libgit2 dependencies are available
$ brew install cmake openssl@1.1 libssh2 pkg-config
$ LIBGIT2_FORCE=1 make libgit2

Linux

$ # Ensure libgit2 dependencies are available
$ pacman -S cmake openssl libssh2
$ LIBGIT2_FORCE=1 make libgit2

Note: Example shown is for Arch Linux, but likewise procedure can be followed using any other package manager. Some distributions may have slight variation of package names (e.g. apt install -y cmake openssl libssh2-1-dev).

In addition to the above, the following dependencies are also used by some of the make targets:

  • controller-gen (v0.7.0)
  • gen-crd-api-reference-docs (v0.3.0)
  • setup-envtest (latest)

If any of the above dependencies are not present on your system, the first invocation of a make target that requires them will install them.

How to run the test suite

Prerequisites:

  • Go >= 1.17

You can run the test suite by simply doing

make test

How to run the controller locally

Install the controller's CRDs on your test cluster:

make install

Run the controller locally:

make run

How to install the controller

Building the container image

Set the name of the container image to be created from the source code. This will be used when building, pushing and referring to the image on YAML files:

export IMG=registry-path/source-controller
export TAG=latest # optional

Build the container image, tagging it as $(IMG):$(TAG):

make docker-build

Push the image into the repository:

make docker-push

Alternatively, the three steps above can be done in a single line:

IMG=registry-path/source-controller TAG=latest BUILD_ARGS=--push \
    make docker-build

For an extensive list of BUILD_ARGS, refer to the docker buildx build options documentation.

Note: make docker-build will build images for all supported architecture by default. Limit this to a specific architecture for faster builds:

IMG=registry-path/source-controller TAG=latest BUILD_ARGS=--push BUILD_PLATFORMS=amd64 \
    make docker-build

If you get the following error when building the docker container:

Multiple platforms feature is currently not supported for docker driver.
Please switch to a different driver (eg. "docker buildx create --use")

you may need to create and switch to a new builder that supports multiple platforms:

docker buildx create --use

Deploying into a cluster

Deploy source-controller into the cluster that is configured in the local kubeconfig file (i.e. ~/.kube/config):

make deploy