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Implementation Guide

This specification has been fully described in the schema.json file. Developer and deployment tools should be implemented using this file.

Developer Tools

Developer tooling helps application developers or designers get going quickly. Tools may be template-based or wizard-style tools, command line or graphical interface. When creating a tool for developers decide how much assistance you want to expose for the providers. Each provider has its own documentation and potential tooling but integrating provider features can be a big help to getting something working quickly.

Wizard-style tools that generate the files for an application require these fields for input:

  • name
  • description
  • version (application)

Each "application" component the user wants to define will compose the "graph" for the Nulecule. A component may either be a remote application or defined locally in the directory structure.

Remote applications

Remote applications are other nulecule container images, for example someuser/mariadb-app. No other information is needed.

Local applications

Local applications are defined by a directory in the graph. These fields are required for input:

  • application name: this is added to the Nulecule graph and creates a directory in the graph.
  • provider: a subdirectory of the application directory

Providers

Provider files may be generated based on some templates. Providing a mechanism to parameterize these files helps the developer understand how parameterization works. For example, if a set of kubernetes template files are pulled in allowing the developer to parameterize some values in the pod file would update the pod file and create a key = value pair in the application section of the params.conf file. For required values without defaults set the value to None in params.conf. With this example as a starting point the developer can then easily manipulate parameters by manually editing the files based on the demonstrated pattern.

Runtime Tools

The Reference implementation, Atomic App, coded in python is located at: https://github.com/projectatomic/atomicapp