This guide moves past the “Hello World” example and walks through setting up a full end-to-end developer environment for iterating on your Ship Application.
Project Setup
The first step is to start from the Replicated Ship Starter Project and get set up with your own copy of that repo.
You’ll want to follow the steps in the Project Readme to get the make run-local and make run-local-headless tasks running properly.
Running your Application
Once you have the project set up, you should test your outputs in a real Kubernetes cluster. The easiest and fastest way to iterate is to run Docker for Desktop and use the built-in Kubernetes cluster option. GKE or other cloud-based managed clusters should also work.
You can use the following to test deploying your rendered Kubernets Assets to the cluster:
made deploy
Iterating Quickly
As you’re editing your Kubernetes YAML in the base directory, you can run
make run-local-headless deploy
to quickly re-render your outputs and deploy them to a kubectl configured Kubernetes cluster.
Next Steps
Now that you’re set up with a development environment, its time to automate releases with github.