Accelerating Collaborative Plugin Development
summary
Describes a concrete internal platform: a single multi-tenant repo using Gradle composite builds so shared libraries compile across plugins, a Docker Compose local Spinnaker for fast iteration, CI that runs Spinnaker startup and compatibility tests, and GitHub Actions that publishes zip bundles and updates an automated plugin index JSON. Plugins run unsandboxed with full Spring bean access (security risk), releases iterate quickly and the demo shows build, publish and reload working end to end.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:45What are Spinnaker Plugins?
- 2:26Plugin Security
- 4:16Why Develop Plugins?
- 6:17Internal Plugin Platforms
- 8:37Reusable Plugin Code
- 10:30Leveraging Organizational Resources
- 11:16Plugin Build & Test
- 12:53Plugin Publishing
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