bmpotter/bluehorizon-snap

Horizon client components packaged as a Ubuntu Snap and configured to bootstrap into the Blue Horizon managed infrastructure

bluehorizon-snap

Introduction

NOTE: This project is deprecated in favor of http://github.com/open-horizon/horizon-pkg.

This project contains the Horizon client system bootstrapped to the Blue Horizon managed infrastructure. You can install the client on a Ubuntu Snap capable system by executing snap install --devmode --beta bluehorizon. Alternatively, you can download a complete system image for various SBCs at http://bluehorizon.network.

Related Projects:

• anax (http://github.com/open-horizon/anax): The client control application in the Horizon system
• raspbian-image (http://github.com/open-horizon/raspbian-image): The Raspbian image builder for Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 models dedicated to Horizon
• horizon-pkg (http://github.com/open-horizon/horizon-pkg): A system for packaging Horizon system debs for multiple distributions and architectures. It also produces Ubuntu snaps

Operations

Preconditions

• A development system running Ubuntu 16.04 classic with the packages snapd and snapcraft installed
• To publish the snap, an account at myapps.developer.ubuntu.com and listing as a collaborator on the bluehorizon project (contact mdye for this access)

Build snap

snapcraft snap

Push snap to Ubuntu store

snapcraft push bluehorizon_*.snap

Release snap to Ubuntu store (edge channel)

snapcraft publish bluehorizon <revision> edge

Development Shortcuts

• To save time rebuilding the snap, pre-fetch the golang dependencies: (cd anax; make deps). The state created by executing this step can be removed with (cd anax; make clean).
• During development, it isn't necessary to work with full-composed snap archives. Instead, you can create an exploded snap filesystem tree with snapcraft prime and install it for iterative development with snap try ./prime.