Deploying arbitrary services

[dev-thought]

Deploying arbitrary services

[MitkoTschimev]

Yeah, I was thinking about this kind of idea already. I received messages where people asked for custom templates -> So what I can imagine is to be able to provide a custom template path (URL to the template) that would be used.

With this feature we would enable an ecosystem where everyone could provide nice templates for any kind of solution. And they don't need to contribute directly to the plugin?

Imagine it as a plugin system in the plugin :D :D

What do you think?

[micmania1]

Could that already work within the NX paradigms?

Let say for example this plugin provides a generate command to create an empty shell:

nx g @dev-thought/deploy-it-empty:app <my-app>

That would create the infrastructure folder within the specific app (or potentially create the entire app itself), add necessary files (Pulumi.yaml) and add the deploy/destroy commands to the application. All the user would need to do then is write the pulumi typescript file and add any configuration.

If you wanted to extend this to create templates, you could potentially do something similar to this:

import { chain, externalSchematic, Rule } from '@angular-devkit/schematics';

function applyCustomFiles() {
  console.log('Do custom stuff here');
}

function addCustomCommands() {
  console.log('Add custom commands like "serve" to run the service locally');
}

export default function (schema: any): Rule {
  return chain([
    externalSchematic('@dev-thought/deploy-it-empty', 'app', {
      name: schema.name,
    }),
    applyCustomFiles(),
    addCustomCommands(),
  ]);
}

Disclaimer: I'm new to NX/Pulumi and angular workspace schematics so apologies if I make some wrong assumptions. Please feel free to correct me if I get anything wrong.

[MitkoTschimev]

Yes, kind of this way it would be possible. I would skip the whole command line support for it. Because I expect that the person who wants to use a special template, knows which one he chose and with which application/library it is compatible.