backend

ARO-HCP-BACKEND

Development Workflow

The Backend can be built and tested locally and in personal DEV environments using a set of Makefile targets.

• make run: runs the Backend binary locally
• make deploy: builds the Backend container image, uploads it to the DEV service ACR and deploys it to a personal DEV cluster

The Makefile has access to a set of environment variables representing configuration from the config/config.yaml file. The environment variables are made available via the include ../setup-templatize-env.mk directive in the Makefile, which processes and includes the Env.mk file. This is the file you need to modify to provide additional environment variables fueled by config.yaml.

Local Run

Using the make run target, the Backend binary can be run locally.

Personal DEV Environment deployment

The local code can also be deployed directly into a personal DEV environment by running make deploy. Understand that this requires such an environment to be created first via make personal-dev-env from the root of the repository.

make deploy builds a custom developer image from the local code and uploads it to the DEV service ACR (arohcpsvcdev) into a developer specific repository. This way developer images will not conflict with other developer images or CI built ones. The actual deployment is delegated to the pipeline/RP.Backend target in the root of the repository, providing a configuration override for backend.image.repository and backend.image.digest respectively.

Deployment

The pipeline.yaml file in this directory contains the pipeline definition for the Backend. It is integrated into the topology.yaml file and runs as part of the service cluster deployment.