elastic-package

elastic-package is a command line tool, written in Go, used for developing Elastic packages. It can help you lint, format, test and build your packages. Learn about each of these and other features in Commands below.

Currently, elastic-package only supports packages of type Elastic Integrations.

Getting started

Download latest release from the Releases page.

On macOS, use xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine elastic-package after downloading to allow the binary to run.

Alternatively, you may use go install but you will not be able to use the elastic-package version command or check updates.

go install github.com/elastic/elastic-package@latest

Please 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-package

Run the help command and see available commands:

elastic-package help

Development

Download and build the latest main of elastic-package binary:

git clone https://github.com/elastic/elastic-package.git
cd elastic-package
make build

When developing on Windows, please use the core.autocrlf=input or core.autocrlf=false option to avoid issues with CRLF line endings:

git clone --config core.autocrlf=input https://github.com/elastic/elastic-package.git
cd elastic-package
make build

This option can be also configured on existing clones with the following commands. Be aware that these commands will remove uncommited changes.

git config core.autocrlf input
git rm --cached -r .
git reset --hard

Commands

elastic-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>.

`elastic-package help`

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.

`elastic-package completion`

Context: global

Use this command to output shell completion information.

The command output shell completions information (for bash, zsh, fish and powershell). The output can be sourced in the shell to enable command completion.

Run elastic-package completion and follow the instruction for your shell.

`elastic-package benchmark`

Context: package

Use this command to run benchmarks on a package. Currently, the following types of benchmarks are available:

Pipeline Benchmarks

These benchmarks allow you to benchmark any Ingest Node Pipelines defined by your packages.

For details on how to configure pipeline benchmarks for a package, review the HOWTO guide.

System Benchmarks

These benchmarks allow you to benchmark an integration end to end.

For details on how to configure system benchmarks for a package, review the HOWTO guide.

`elastic-package benchmark generate-corpus`

Context: package

BEWARE: this command is in beta and it's behaviour may change in the future. Use this command to generate benchmarks corpus data for a package. Currently, only data for what we have related assets on https://github.com/elastic/elastic-integration-corpus-generator-tool are supported. For details on how to run this command, review the HOWTO guide.

`elastic-package benchmark pipeline`

Context: package

Run pipeline benchmarks for the package.

`elastic-package benchmark system`

Context: package

Run system benchmarks for the package.

`elastic-package build`

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. For details on how to generate and syntax of this README, see the HOWTO guide.

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.

For details on how to enable dependency management, see the HOWTO guide.

`elastic-package changelog`

Context: package

Use this command to work with the changelog of the package.

You can use this command to modify the changelog following the expected format and good practices. This can be useful when introducing changelog entries for changes done by automated processes.

`elastic-package changelog add`

Context: package

Use this command to add an entry to the changelog file.

The entry added will include the given description, type and link. It is added on top of the last entry in the current version

Alternatively, you can start a new version indicating the specific version, or if it should be the next major, minor or patch version.

`elastic-package check`

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.

`elastic-package clean`

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).

`elastic-package create`

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.

For details on how to create a new package, review the HOWTO guide.

`elastic-package create data-stream`

Context: global

Use this command to create a new data stream.

The command can extend the package with a new data stream using embedded data stream template and wizard.

`elastic-package create package`

Context: global

Use this command to create a new package.

The command can bootstrap the first draft of a package using embedded package template and wizard.

`elastic-package dump`

Context: global

Use this command as an exploratory tool to dump resources from Elastic Stack (objects installed as part of package and agent policies).

`elastic-package dump agent-policies`

Context: global

Use this command to dump agent policies created by Fleet as part of a package installation.

Use this command as an exploratory tool to dump agent policies as they are created by Fleet when installing a package. Dumped agent policies are stored in files as they are returned by APIs of the stack, without any processing.

If no flag is provided, by default this command dumps all agent policies created by Fleet.

If --package flag is provided, this command dumps all agent policies that the given package has been assigned to it.

`elastic-package dump installed-objects`

Context: global

Use this command to dump objects installed by Fleet as part of a package.

Use this command as an exploratory tool to dump objects as they are installed by Fleet when installing a package. Dumped objects are stored in files as they are returned by APIs of the stack, without any processing.

`elastic-package export`

Context: package

Use this command to export assets relevant for the package, e.g. Kibana dashboards.

`elastic-package export dashboards`

Context: package

Use this command to export dashboards with referenced objects from the Kibana instance.

Use this command to download selected dashboards and other associated saved objects from Kibana. This command adjusts the downloaded saved objects according to package naming conventions (prefixes, unique IDs) and writes them locally into folders corresponding to saved object types (dashboard, visualization, map, etc.).

`elastic-package format`

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.

`elastic-package install`

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 or built locally in zip format so they can be installed using --zip parameter. Zip packages can be installed directly in Kibana >= 8.7.0. More details in this HOWTO guide.

`elastic-package lint`

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).

`elastic-package profiles`

Context: global

Use this command to add, remove, and manage multiple config profiles.

Individual user profiles appear in ~/.elastic-package/stack, and contain all the config files needed by the "stack" subcommand. Once a new profile is created, it can be specified with the -p flag, or the ELASTIC_PACKAGE_PROFILE environment variable. User profiles can be configured with a "config.yml" file in the profile directory.

`elastic-package profiles create`

Context: global

Create a new profile.

`elastic-package profiles delete`

Context: global

Delete a profile.

`elastic-package profiles list`

Context: global

List available profiles.

`elastic-package profiles use`

Context: global

Sets the profile to use when no other is specified.

`elastic-package promote`

Context: global

[DEPRECATED] 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.

`elastic-package publish`

Context: package

[DEPRECATED] 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.

`elastic-package report`

Context: package

Use this command to generate various reports relative to the packages. Currently, the following types of reports are available:

Benchmark report for Github

These report will be generated by comparing local benchmark results against ones from another benchmark run. The report will show performance differences between both runs.

It is formatted as a Markdown Github comment to use as part of the CI results.

`elastic-package report benchmark`

Context: package

Generate a benchmark report comparing local results against ones from another benchmark run.

`elastic-package service`

Context: package

Use this command to boot up the service stack that can be observed with the package.

The command manages lifecycle of the service stack defined for the package ("_dev/deploy") for package development and testing purposes.

`elastic-package service up`

Context: package

Boot up the stack.

`elastic-package stack`

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 by appending --version .

You can run your own custom images for Elasticsearch, Kibana or Elastic Agent, see this document.

Be aware that a common issue while trying to boot up the stack is that your Docker environments settings are too low in terms of memory threshold.

For details on how to connect the service with the Elastic stack, see the service command.

`elastic-package stack down`

Context: global

Take down the stack.

`elastic-package stack dump`

Context: global

Dump stack data for debug purposes.

`elastic-package stack shellinit`

Context: global

Export environment variables.

`elastic-package stack status`

Context: global

Show status of the stack services.

`elastic-package stack up`

Context: global

Use this command to boot up the stack locally.

By default the latest released version of the stack is spun up but it is possible to specify a different version, including SNAPSHOT versions by appending --version .

You can run your own custom images for Elasticsearch, Kibana or Elastic Agent, see this document.

Be aware that a common issue while trying to boot up the stack is that your Docker environments settings are too low in terms of memory threshold.

To expose local packages in the Package Registry, build them first and boot up the stack from inside of the Git repository containing the package (e.g. elastic/integrations). They will be copied to the development stack (~/.elastic-package/stack/development) and used to build a custom Docker image of the Package Registry. Starting with Elastic stack version >= 8.7.0, it is not mandatory to be available local packages in the Package Registry to run the tests.

For details on how to connect the service with the Elastic stack, see the service command.

`elastic-package stack update`

Context: global

Update the stack to the most recent versions.

`elastic-package status [package]`

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.

`elastic-package test`

Context: package

Use this command to run tests on a package. Currently, the following types of tests are available:

Asset Loading Tests

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.

Pipeline Tests

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.

Static Tests

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.

System Tests

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.

`elastic-package test asset`

Context: package

Run asset loading tests for the package.

`elastic-package test pipeline`

Context: package

Run pipeline tests for the package.

`elastic-package test static`

Context: package

Run static files tests for the package.

`elastic-package test system`

Context: package

Run system tests for the package.

`elastic-package uninstall`

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.

`elastic-package version`

Context: global

Use this command to print the version of elastic-package that you have installed. This is especially useful when reporting bugs.

Elastic Package profiles

The profiles subcommand allows to work with different configurations. By default, elastic-package uses the "default" profile. Other profiles can be created with the elastic-package profiles create command. Once a profile is created, it will have its own directory inside the elastic-package data directory. Once you have more profiles, you can change the default with elastic-package profiles use.

You can find the profiles in your system with elastic-package profiles list.

You can delete profiles with elastic-package profiles delete.

Each profile can have a config.yml file that allows to persist configuration settings that apply only to commands using this profile. You can find a config.yml.example that you can copy to start.

The following settings are available per profile:

stack.geoip_dir defines a directory with GeoIP databases that can be used by Elasticsearch in stacks managed by elastic-package. It is recommended to use an absolute path, out of the .elastic-package directory.

Development

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 install - build the tool source and move binary to $GOBIN

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

Release process

This project uses GoReleaser to release a new version of the application (semver). Release publishing is automatically managed by the Jenkins CI (Jenkinsfile) and it's triggered by Git tags. Release artifacts are available in the Releases section.

Steps to create a new release

Fetch latest main from upstream (remember to rebase the branch):

git fetch upstream
git rebase upstream/main

Create Git tag with release candidate:

git tag v0.15.0 # let's release v0.15.0!

Push new tag to the upstream.

git push upstream v0.15.0

The CI will run a new job for the just pushed tag and publish released artifacts. Please expect an automated follow-up PR in the Integrations repository to bump up the version (sample PR).

License

joepeeples/elastic-package

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