Template Project for Digital.ai Release Integrations

This project serves as a template for developing a Python-based container plugin.

See How to create a new project below

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Digital.ai Release integration to TARGET by PUBLISHER

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How to build and run

This section describes the quickest way to get a setup with Release to test containerized plugins using the SDK Development environment. For a production setup, please refer to the documentation.

Prerequisites

You need to have the following installed in order to develop Python-based container tasks for Release using this project:

• Python 3
• Git
• Docker

Start Release

We will run Release within a local Docker environment. In the development setup, the Release server will manage containerized tasks in Docker.

Start the Release environment with the following command

cd dev-environment
docker compose up -d --build

Configure your hosts file

The Release server needs to be able to find the container images of the integration you are creating. In order to do so the development setup has its own registry running inside Docker. Add the address of the registry to your local machine's hosts file.

Unix / macOS

Add the following entry to /etc/hosts (sudo privileges is required to edit):

127.0.0.1 container-registry

Windows

Add the following entry to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts (Run as administrator permission is required to edit):

127.0.0.1 container-registry

Build & publish the plugin

Run the build script

Unix / macOS

sh build.sh 

Windows

build.bat 

This builds the jar and the container image and pushes the image to the configured registry.

Install plugin into Release

In the Release UI, use the Plugin Manager interface to upload the jar from build. The jar takes the name of the project, for example release-integration-template-python-1.0.0.jar.

Then:

• Restart Release container and wait for it to come up
• Refresh the UI by pressing Reload in the browser.

5. Test it!

Create a template with the task Container Example: Hello and run it!

6. Clean up

Stop the development environment with the following command:

docker compose down

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How to create a new project

The release-integration-template-python repository is a template project.

On the main page of this repository, click Use this template button, and select Create new repository. This will create a duplicate of this project to start developing your own container-based integration.

Naming conventions

Use the following naming convention for developing Digital.ai Release integration plugins:

[publisher]-release-[target]-integration

Where publisher would be the name of your company.

For example:

acme-release-example-integration

Repository configuration

In the new project, update project.properties with the name of the integration plugin

cd acme-release-example-integration

Change the following line in project.properties:

PLUGIN=acme-release-example-integration
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