racetrack-client 0.7.3

CLI client tool for deploying workloads to Racetrack

Racetrack client context

racetrack-client is a CLI client tool for deploying workloads to Racetrack (IKP-RT).

Racetrack system allows to deploy jobs in a one step. It transforms your code to in-operation workloads, e.g. Kubernetes workloads. You write some code according to a set of coventions, you include the manifest file which explains the code, and you submit it to Racetrack. A short while after, the service calling your code is in operation.

Quickstart

1. Install racetrack client: pip3 install racetrack-client
2. Configure access token to your git repository: racetrack config credentials set REPO_URL USERNAME TOKEN
3. Deploy your job to Racetrack: racetrack deploy . https://racetrack.example.com/ikp-rt/lifecycle
4. You will see the URL of your deployed job in the output.

Installation

Install racetrack-client using pip:

pip3 install racetrack-client

Python 3.8+ is required. So if you have any troubles, try with:

sudo apt install python3.8 python3.8-dev python3.8-venv
python3.8 -m pip install racetrack-client

This will install racetrack CLI tool. Verify installation by running racetrack.

Usage

Run racetrack --help to see usage.

Deploying

To deploy a job, just run in the place where fatman.yaml is located:

racetrack deploy . https://racetrack.example.com/ikp-rt/lifecycle

racetrack deploy [WORKDIR] [RACETRACK_URL] has 2 optional arguments:

• WORKDIR - a place where the fatman.yaml is, by default it's current directory
• RACETRACK_URL - URL address to Racetrack server, where a job should be deployed. If not given, it will be deployed to a URL configured in a local client config, by default it's set to a local cluster at http://localhost:7002.

Showing logs

To see recent logs from your Fatman output, run racetrack logs command:

racetrack logs . https://racetrack.example.com/ikp-rt/lifecycle

racetrack logs [WORKDIR] [RACETRACK_URL] has 2 arguments:

• WORKDIR - a place where the fatman.yaml is, by default it's current directory
• RACETRACK_URL - URL address to Racetrack server, where the Fatman is deployed.

Local client configuration

If you want to update client configuration (namely persist some preferences for later use), use the following command:

racetrack config set [CONFIG_NAME] [VALUE]

Local client configuration is stored at ~/.racetrack/config.yaml.

Configuring default Racetrack URL

You can set default Racetrack URL address:

racetrack config racetrack_url https://racetrack.example.com/ikp-rt/lifecycle

Then you can run just racetrack deploy command (without RACETRACK_URL argument), racetrack_url will be inferred from client configuration.

Private Job repositories

Before building & deploying a Job stored in a private git repository, you should make sure that Racetrack has access to it. Add git credentials to access your repository using command:

racetrack config credentials set REPO_URL USERNAME TOKEN

• REPO_URL can be a full URL of a git remote (eg. https://gitlab.com/git/namespace/ikp-rt) or a general domain name (eg. https://gitlab.com) if you want to use same token for all repositories from there.
• USERNAME is your git account username
• TOKEN is a password to read from your repository. Use access tokens with read_repository scope instead of your real password! Here's how to create personal access token in Gitlab

Racetrack URL aliases

You can set up aliases for Racetrack server URL addresses by issuing command:

racetrack config alias set ALIAS RACETRACK_URL

If you operate with many environments, setting short names may come in handy. For instance:

racetrack config alias set dev https://dev.racetrack.example.com/ikp-rt/lifecycle
racetrack config alias set test https://test.racetrack.example.com/ikp-rt/lifecycle
racetrack config alias set prod https://prod.racetrack.example.com/ikp-rt/lifecycle
racetrack config alias set kind http://localhost:7002
racetrack config alias set compose http://localhost:7102

and then you can use your short names instead of full RACETRACK_URL address when calling racetrack deploy . dev.

Development setup

Clone IKP-RT repository and run it inside this directory:

make setup