warp: Yet another deployment wrapper 🚀

warp is yet another command-line interface for deploying Kubernetes stacks. The approach is very similar to Skaffold, but warp is specifically tailored to end-to-end testing. It is a tiny wrapper (warper?) to develop and perform end-to-end tests, at warp seed. 🚀

warp is useful when you want to manage more than one deployment of a stack. This arises when you have multiple software engineers working on the same project, or an undetermined number of parallel jobs running in Continuous Integration. warp uses name_manager to minimize the number of stacks that need to be deployed.

Stacks are deployed and tested according to pipelines. These pipelines give all the steps to deploy the stack, all the tools to launch during local development (file syncing, port forwarding, webapp live reload, ...), and all the end-to-end tests to run.

The end-to-end tests and local development tools are automatically passed environment variables to connect to the stack. Performing end-to-end tests on a test stack is greatly simplified. For instance, this would be the pipeline to perform Cypress browser tests on a web app:

# stack identifies the stacks managed by this pipeline.
# Stacks either have a fixed name (typical for production stacks),
# or a name built from a fixed component (the "family" name) and a variable 
# component (the "short" name).  The short name is automatically generated.
stack:
  family: my-web-app
deploy:
  # kustomize instructs the pipeline to deploy the stack using Kustomize.
  kustomize:
    # path is the path to the Kustomize configuration.
    # "kustomize/base/kustomization.yml" would be a file referencing all
    # the Kubernetes resources to deploy and the kustomizations to apply.
    path: kustomize/base
# commands lists all the commands that can be executed against the stack.
commands:
- name: test
  description: Non-interactive testing using Cypress.
  env:
    # If the frontend is implemented as a Kubernetes service named
    # frontend and its pods serve the frontend on port 8080, the
    # template would expand to, e.g., "127.0.0.1:57689", where
    # 57689 is a random port.  In the background, warp forwards
    # the 8080 port of a pod to this local random port.
    # The port forwarding ends when the test completes.
    - 'CYPRESS_baseUrl=http://{{ serviceAddress "frontend" 8080 }}'
  workingDir: frontend
  command: ['yarn', 'cypress', 'run']
- name: open
  descripton: Interactive testing using Cypress.
  env:
    - 'CYPRESS_baseUrl=http://{{ serviceAddress "frontend" 8080 }}'
    workingDir: frontend
    command: ['yarn', 'cypress', 'open']

To run all the tests, if the above pipeline is in pipeline.yml, use warp pipeline.yml --run test --tail (--tail follows the stdout/stderr of all the containers in the stack). To develop or debug tests, run warp pipeline.yml --run open --tail.

It doesn't get simpler than that. 🏖

Because pipelines can inherit the steps of other, base pipelines, it is possible to have an overlay organization that would mimic how project are organized with Kustomize. For instance, you could have a base folder containing a base pipeline.yml and kustomization.yml, a dev folder containing configurations for a "dev" stack with file synchronization and the ability to manage multiple stacks, and a prod folder containing the configuration for the production stack.

warp can be either consumed as a Go package or through a standalone Command-Line Interface (CLI). It is continuously tested on Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

License

warp is licensed under The MIT License.

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warp: Yet another deployment wrapper 🚀

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