Engineer With Armory, Sponsored by Google
Armory is proud to invest in Google Summer of Code again this year, and help foster a new generation of global engineering talent by mentoring students in CD Foundation projects. Passing along our understanding of enterprise-scale software delivery to new DevOps practitioners keeps us in touch with the Armory user’s journey : ) Want to participate in 2021, or know someone who might? Keep reading!
Innovation Through Mentoring
Last year’s crop of promising projects brought us Victor Odusanya’s implementation of a DroneCI pipeline stage in Spinnaker. With his project, Victor was able to expand open source support for continuous integration tools beyond Jenkins and Google Cloud Build. Now companies using DroneCI within pipelines can seamlessly extend Spinnaker to manage it, with Victor’s work to build from. This project also gave the Spinnaker community an early opportunity to handle a new extensibility request according to the lean-core commitment made by the TOC (Technical Oversight Committee); DroneCI integration happens via a plugin.
We’re currently still looking for bright new participants to join us in this year’s cohort! Please reach out to us in the Contributor Experience SIG channel on Spinnaker Slack ASAP to express interest or propose a project idea.
Paying It Forward: Spinnaker Plugins Workshop
- Consulting resources useful to Spinnaker plugin builders, such as the Plugin Creators Guide.
- Starting the plugin project with prerequisites and Armory’s PF4J RandomWait Stage, a starter which contains bootstrap required for quick project setup.
- Understanding how extensions to different Spinnaker services can be packaged together as submodules into a Gradle plugin bundle.
- Managing Spinnaker service dependencies through Kork, and other dependency management tasks.
- Extending Spinnaker’s Orca orchestration engine, which “connects the dots across the pipeline,” via the Orca API’s extension points.
- Extending the PF4J plugin to configure logging for development.
- Building a plugin class and entry point, to start the plugin and define setup actions.
- Providing a stage definition to connect the new stage to other stages within pipelines; understanding Spinnaker stage definitions and associated methods.
- Retrieving data, such as auth token and event type, from Spinnaker’s configuration manifest for use in a plugin.
Join Victor as he synthesizes everything he learned as a newcomer to Spinnaker Plugin development in 2020 into the workshop. If you are interested in working on your own GSoC project this year, you may decide to build an extension for Spinnaker using the same plugin framework. However, the sky is the limit, so bring your ideas, or get unblocked by reviewing our ideas on the GSoc page on Spinnaker.io. For architectural advice, help scoping your project, logistical answers, or moral support, reach out to Armory community organizers in the Spinnaker contributor experience channel to get connected with the mentor team.
