Builder Developer Information

Setup

To start developing, clone the repo and run nix develop to install all python requirements:

git clone https://iglu-sh/iglu
nix develop

General Dev Information

The Builder is written in Python using FastAPI, our Linter is Basedpyright and the files live in /builder.

The project structure is as follows:

• main.py: main program
• static: all static pages live here
• app: in this directory are all needed components
• templates: all needed jinja2 templates will go here

Api (routes) Structure

We follow these route sturctures:

• /api/v1/*: here are any REST-API and Websocket endpoints
• /: this is a small welcome page with a simple test interface
• /docs: from FastAPI generated api documentation

Starting a build process

To start a build process you have to follow this short manual:

1. start developing mode: cd builder fastapi dev
2. connect to websocket via http://localhost:8000/api/v1/build
3. send a builder config via this websocket
4. wait until your build has fnished

Builder-Config schema

Key	Values	Description
command	<list<string>>	Command to execute seperated as list. This command hast to start with nix or nix-build
repo.url	<string>	Url of the git repository
repo.branch	<string>	Optional parameter to select a specific branch, if not set the default branch will be cloned
cache.url	<string>	Url of the cachix compatible cache
cache.auth_token	<string>	The authtoken of the cachix compatible cache
cache.signing_key	<string>	The signingkey which is used to sign every derivation

Example config

{
    "command": ["nix", "build", ".#nixosConfigurations.SYSTEM.config.system.build.toplevel"],
    "repo": {
        "url": "https://github.com/your/repo",
        "branch": "my-branch"
    },
    "cache": {
        "url": "https://cache.example.com/cache",
        "auth_token": "your_super_secret_token",
        "signing_key": "your_super_secret_signing_key"
    }
}