An unofficial CLI for the Google Container Builder API
Project description
# cb-cli - An Unofficial CLI tool for Google Cloud Container Builder
Google Cloud Container Builder is a powerful tool for building Container Images quickly and efficiently from source and storing them in Google Container Registry (GCR). While Container Builder supports Dockerfiles to configure builds it also supports other methods of building images more safely and efficiently.
This CLI provides a handy mechanism for accessing the API for building Container images from local source, and introduces Buildfiles for describing Container Builder configurations.
## Installation
The reccomended way to install this tool is from pypy via pip.
pip install cbcli
## Authentication
This tool uses Application Default Credentials to authenticate to the Google Cloud Platform. To use these, download the Google Cloud SDK and run:
gcloud beta auth application-default login
prior to running the script. Read more on Google’s [documentation](https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/application-default-credentials#whentouse)
## Basic Usage
To build a Container Image from source, add a Buildfile to the base directory of the application’s source tree, then run the Container Builder CLI.
cbcli gcr.io/your-project-id/image-name
The Buildfile describes how your source code should be transformed into a Docker image, and is run remotely using the Cloud Container Builder service.
## Buildfiles
Buildfiles describe a set of build steps that are run in serial against your source tree to produce a Docker image.
To help get you started, here are some useful Buildfiles.
Build any Docker container from a Dockerfile [Buildfile](buildfiles/docker.Buildfile)
Build a lean Spring Boot application from source using a Maven pom.xml file [Buildfile](buildfiles/springboot.Buildfile)
Build a Node.js application from a Gulp configuration file [Buildfile](buildfiles/node-gulp.Buildfile)
A build step is itself simply a Docker image within which your source will be transiently mounted in a special directory. You can customize the arguments, environment variables and parameters used to invoke a build step, making them easy to configure.
## TODOs
Add Stacksmith integration
Better build/poll UI
Add automatic creation of buildfiles
