feat: exploratory approaches to artifact manipulation

[kmehant]

Motivation

Move2Kube is a command-line tool for automating creation of Infrastructure as code (IaC) artifacts. It has built-in support for creating IaC artifacts for re-platforming to Kubernetes/OpenShift. As part of re-platforming, we want to allow artifact manipulation at various levels to handle complex cases of re-platforming flows.

Expected Outcome

Identify various forms of artifact manipulation and explore approaches to support such manipulations.

Example

While re-platforming from Netflix OSS spring booth feign client + eureka to Kubernetes (kubedns, kube-dns, services, ingress etc.) could need some artifact changes at different levels (code, architecture etc.)

Resources

Transformer - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/concepts/transformer
Path Mapping - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/concepts/path-mapping
Artifact - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/concepts/artifact
Transformer types - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/transformers

Getting Started

• If you are familiar with Golang you can start by trying to build the Move2Kube CLI https://github.com/konveyor/move2kube
  Follow the tutorial on how to use it to do a transformation https://move2kube.konveyor.io/tutorials/cli
• Details on the Transformer architecture in Move2Kube
  • Transformer concept - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/concepts/transformer
  • Path Mapping concept - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/concepts/path-mapping
  • Artifact concept - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/concepts/artifact
  • Different set of transformers - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/transformers
• Details on adding/using external transformers - https://move2kube.konveyor.io/tutorials/customizing-the-output
• Interesting blog on Netflix OSS vs Kubernetes - https://blog.christianposta.com/microservices/netflix-oss-or-kubernetes-how-about-both/
• Netflix OSS docs on https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-netflix/docs/current/reference/html/

[anj20]

I want to contribute to this issue @kmehant .

[HarikrishnanBalagopal]

For those coming from LFX, this issue #1063 has a few more details on how to get started with Move2Kube.

[jayg2309]

Hey @HarikrishnanBalagopal I want to contribute to this. I have referred to #1063 and will learn about this project. I am coming from LFX, so please let me know what else I need to do

[darshannere]

Hi @HarikrishnanBalagopal , I have gone through #1063 and have gotten basic idea of this project. I want to work on this improvement with LFX mentorship. Let me know how I could start contributing.