ibek 0.9.5

IOC Builder for EPICS and Kubernetes

IOC Builder for EPICS and Kubernetes:

• In an EPICS support module describe what entities an IOC using it can create, what arguments they take, and what database and st.cmd snippets it should generate in a builder.yaml file

• Build support modules together in a container image and use ibek in the image to create a JSON schema of what an IOC using that image can contain

• Write an ioc.yaml file against that schema listing instances of the entities with arguments

• Use ibek to generate a startup script and database that runs up the IOC contained in the image with them

PyPI	pip install ibek
Source code	https://github.com/epics-containers/ibek
Documentation	https://epics-containers.github.io/ibek
Releases	https://github.com/epics-containers/ibek/releases

TODO

This project is approaching completion. The following items are still to do:

• Complete documentation in general

• Add a diagram and more details. Use draw.io for image, and save as SVG with source embed in it, save as something.draw.io.svg

• DONE: Add ability to define embedded objects e.g. AsynIp and AsynSerial would both be defined by embedding AsynPort (so similar to how original builder.py works)

• Add support for enums where you define the possible values inline

• DONE: update helm-template/config/start.sh to call ‘ibek build-startup’ when it sees a st.cmd.yaml file in the startup directory. This change requires embedding ibek into the epics-base container image.

See https://epics-containers.github.io/ibek for more detailed documentation.