Getting started on Zaba505's Home Lab

What you need

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The rebuild entry point is a Dagger module in this repository. Everything it runs, it runs in containers it puts together, so the machine that calls it needs only two tools, and the module needs to know where the values checkout is.

The Dagger CLI

The CLI has to be the version the module pins. That’s v1.0.0-beta.15, the engineVersion in the repository’s dagger-module.toml. Install it with Dagger’s install script, at that version:

A first drill

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A drill is a rebuild against a scratch target, which leaves the live platform untouched. Drill and live differ only in the target, so a drill is the same commands a live rebuild runs. Run them from this repository’s checkout, with the values checkout set as What you need says.

Add the drill’s target

Give the drill a file in the values checkout, targets/drill.yaml:

kind: drill

The name of the file, without .yaml, is the target’s name. A drill may run from uncommitted changes, in either checkout, so the file doesn’t need to be committed first. The run’s record says it was.

Going live

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Going live is the same rebuild a drill runs, against the live target. The commands are the same; what changes is the target, and two rules that keep a drill from ever reaching it by mistake.

Add the live target

Give the live target a file in the values checkout, targets/live.yaml:

kind: live

Only one target is live: every call refuses to run while a second target’s file says kind: live, as committed or as it stands.