elastic-package is a command line tool, written in Go, used for developing Elastic packages. It can help you lint, format,
test, build, and promote your packages. Learn about each of these and other features in Commands below.
Currently, elastic-package only supports packages of type Elastic Integrations.
Download and build the latest master of elastic-package binary:
git clone https://github.com/elastic/elastic-package.git
make buildAlternatively, you may use go get but you will not be able to use the elastic-package version command.
go get github.com/elastic/elastic-packagePlease make sure that you've correctly setup environment variables -
$GOPATH and $PATH, and elastic-package is accessible from your $PATH.
Change directory to the package under development.
cd my-packageRun the help command and see available commands:
elastic-package helpelastic-package currently offers the commands listed below.
Some commands have a global context, meaning that they can be executed from anywhere and they will have the same result. Other commands have a package context; these must be executed from somewhere under a package's root folder and they will operate on the contents of that package.
For more details on a specific command, run elastic-package help <command>.
Context: global
Use this command to get a listing of all commands available under elastic-package and a brief
description of what each command does.
Context: package
Use this command to build a package. Currently it supports only the "integration" package type.
Built packages are stored in the "build/" folder located at the root folder of the local Git repository checkout that contains your package folder. The command will also render the README file in your package folder if there is a corresponding template file present in "_dev/build/docs/README.md". All "_dev" directories under your package will be omitted.
Built packages are served up by the Elastic Package Registry running locally (see "elastic-package stack"). If you want a local package to be served up by the local Elastic Package Registry, make sure to build that package first using "elastic-package build".
Built packages can also be published to the global package registry service.
Context: package
Use this command to verify if the package is correct in terms of formatting, validation and building.
It will execute the format, lint, and build commands all at once, in that order.
Context: package
Use this command to clean resources used for building the package.
The command will remove built package files (in build/), files needed for managing the development stack (in ~/.elastic-package/stack/development) and stack service logs (in ~/.elastic-package/tmp/service_logs).
Context: global
Use this command to create a new package or add more data streams.
The command can help bootstrap the first draft of a package using embedded package template. It can be used to extend the package with more data streams.
Context: package
Use this command to export assets relevant for the package, e.g. Kibana dashboards.
Context: package
Use this command to format the package files.
The formatter supports JSON and YAML format, and skips "ingest_pipeline" directories as it's hard to correctly format Handlebars template files. Formatted files are being overwritten.
Context: package
Use this command to install the package in Kibana.
The command uses Kibana API to install the package in Kibana. The package must be exposed via the Package Registry.
Context: package
Use this command to validate the contents of a package using the package specification (see: https://github.com/elastic/package-spec).
The command ensures that the package is aligned with the package spec and the README file is up-to-date with its template (if present).
Context: global
Use this command to move packages between the snapshot, staging, and production stages of the package registry.
This command is intended primarily for use by administrators.
It allows for selecting packages for promotion and opens new pull requests to review changes. Please be aware that the tool checks out an in-memory Git repository and switches over branches (snapshot, staging and production), so it may take longer to promote a larger number of packages.
Context: package
Use this command to publish a new package revision.
The command checks if the package hasn't been already published (whether it's present in snapshot/staging/production branch or open as pull request). If the package revision hasn't been published, it will open a new pull request.
Context: global
Use this command to spin up a Docker-based Elastic Stack consisting of Elasticsearch, Kibana, and the Package Registry. By default the latest released version of the stack is spun up but it is possible to specify a different version, including SNAPSHOT versions.
For details on how to connect the service with the Elastic stack, see the HOWTO guide.
Context: package
Use this command to display the current deployment status of a package.
If a package name is specified, then information about that package is returned, otherwise this command checks if the current directory is a package directory and reports its status.
Context: package
Use this command to run tests on a package. Currently, the following types of tests are available:
These tests ensure that all the Elasticsearch and Kibana assets defined by your package get loaded up as expected.
For details on how to run asset loading tests for a package, see the HOWTO guide.
These tests allow you to exercise any Ingest Node Pipelines defined by your packages.
For details on how to configure pipeline test for a package, review the HOWTO guide.
These tests allow you to verify if all static resources of the package are valid, e.g. if all fields of the sample_event.json are documented.
For details on how to run static tests for a package, see the HOWTO guide.
These tests allow you to test a package's ability to ingest data end-to-end.
For details on how to configure amd run system tests, review the HOWTO guide.
Context: package
Use this command to uninstall the package in Kibana.
The command uses Kibana API to uninstall the package in Kibana. The package must be exposed via the Package Registry.
Context: global
Use this command to print the version of elastic-package that you have installed. This is especially useful when reporting bugs.
The promote and publish commands require access to the GitHub API to open pull requests or check authorized account data.
The tool uses the GitHub token to authorize user's call to API. The token can be stored in the ~/.elastic/github.token
file or passed via the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable.
Here are the instructions on how to create your own personal access token (PAT): https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/creating-a-personal-access-token
Make sure you have enabled the following scopes:
public_repo— to open pull requests on GitHub repositories.read:useranduser:email— to read your user profile information from GitHub in order to populate pull requests appropriately.
Even though the project is "go-gettable", there is the Makefile present, which can be used to build, format or vendor
source code:
make build - build the tool source
make format - format the Go code
make vendor - vendor code of dependencies
make check - one-liner, used by CI to verify if source code is ready to be pushed to the repository