devctl

devctl

devctl is a command-line tool designed to streamline development workflows at Giant Swarm. It provides various commands to help manage repositories, generate files, and bootstrap applications.

Installation

Important: We recommend downloading the latest release from our releases page rather than using go install. This ensures you get a properly built binary with:

• Correct version information
• Git commit information for traceability
• Build timestamps
• All necessary build flags
• Generated code and mocks for testing

While go install will work, it won't include this important metadata and may miss generated code that helps with debugging and version tracking.

# Not recommended
go install github.com/giantswarm/devctl/v7@latest

Recommended: Download the latest release from

https://github.com/giantswarm/devctl/releases

Features

App Management (devctl app)

The app command provides tools for working with Giant Swarm app repositories.

Bootstrap Command (devctl app bootstrap)

Creates a new app repository from a template with the following features:

• Creates a new repository from the template-app template
• Configures sync methods (vendir or kustomize)
• Sets up patch methods (script or kustomize)
• Configures CI/CD automatically
• Creates a pull request with the initial setup

devctl app bootstrap \
  --name my-app \
  --patch-method script \
  --sync-method vendir \
  --team myteam \
  --upstream-chart helm/upstream \
  --upstream-repo https://github.com/org/repo \
  --github-token-envvar GITHUB_TOKEN

Options:

• --name: Name of the app (required)
• --patch-method: Method to patch upstream changes (script or kustomize)
• --sync-method: Method to sync upstream changes (vendir or kustomize)
• --team: Team responsible for the app
• --upstream-chart: Path to the upstream chart
• --upstream-repo: URL of the upstream repository
• --github-token-envvar: Name of environment variable containing GitHub token
• --dry-run: Only print what would be done

Repository Management (devctl repo)

The repo command helps manage GitHub repositories.

Setup Command (devctl repo setup)

Configures repository settings according to Giant Swarm standards:

• Sets up branch protection rules
• Configures repository settings
• Sets up team permissions
• Configures CI/CD workflows

devctl repo setup org/repo-name

Code Generation (devctl gen)

The gen command provides tools for generating various files:

• Workflows
• Makefile
• License
• And more

devctl gen workflow
devctl gen makefile
devctl gen license

Pull request batch management

# Merge all ready PRs for updating architect-orb to v7.8.9
# where you or your team is requested for review
devctl pr approve-merge-renovate "architect-orb v7.8.9"

# Approve "Align files" PRs
# where you are requested for review
devctl pr approve-align-files

Release Management (devctl release)

Helps manage releases in Giant Swarm repositories:

• Creates release branches
• Updates changelog
• Creates GitHub releases

devctl release create

Replace Command (devctl replace)

Helps replace content across multiple files:

devctl replace old-text new-text

Shell Completion

Provides shell completion for various shells:

# Bash
devctl completion bash > ~/.bash_completion.d/devctl

# Zsh
devctl completion zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_devctl"

# Fish
devctl completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/devctl.fish

Development

Requirements

• Go 1.21 or later
• Git
• GitHub account with appropriate permissions

Building from Source

If you want to build from source, use the Makefile which ensures all necessary steps are executed:

git clone https://github.com/giantswarm/devctl.git
cd devctl
make build     # Build with proper flags and metadata

Running Tests

go test ./...

Debug Mode

Set LOG_LEVEL=debug to see detailed output:

LOG_LEVEL=debug devctl app bootstrap ...

Contributing

Please check our contributing guidelines for details on how to contribute to this project.

License

devctl is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.