Also add some convenience helper methods to deal with names, including
IsName and AsName, which validate that names obey the intended regular expressions.
This change includes logic to resolve dependencies declared by stacks. The design
is described in https://github.com/marapongo/mu/blob/master/docs/deps.md.
In summary, each stack may declare dependencies, which are name/semver pairs. A
new structure has been introduced, ast.Ref, to distinguish between ast.Names and
dependency names. An ast.Ref includes a protocol, base part, and a name part (the
latter being an ast.Name); for example, in "https://hub.mu.com/mu/container/",
"https://" is the protocol, "hub.mu.com/" is the base, and "mu/container" is the
name. This is used to resolve URL-like names to package manager-like artifacts.
The dependency resolution phase happens after parsing, but before semantic analysis.
This is because dependencies are "source-like" in that we must load and parse all
dependency metadata files. We stick the full transitive closure of dependencies
into a map attached to the compiler to avoid loading dependencies multiple times.
Note that, although dependencies prohibit cycles, this forms a DAG, meaning multiple
inbound edges to a single stack may come from multiple places.
From there, we rely on ordinary visitation to deal with dependencies further.
This includes inserting symbol entries into the symbol table, mapping names to the
loaded stacks, during the first phase of binding so that they may be found
subsequently when typechecking during the second phase and beyond.
This change introduces a Workspace interface that can be used as a first
class object. We will embellish this as we start binding to dependencies,
which requires us to search multiple paths. This change also introduces a
workspace.InstallRoot() function to fetch the Mu install path.
We will use the $MUROOT envvar to determine where Mu has been installed,
which will by default be /usr/local/mu. From there, we can access the
predefined library of stacks (underneath $MUROOT/bin/stacks).
This change moves the workspace and Mufile detection logic out of the compiler
package and into the workspace one.
This also sketches out the overall workspace structure. A workspace is "delimited"
by the presence of a .mu/ directory anywhere in the parent ancestry. Inside of that
directory we have an optional .mu/clusters.yaml (or .json) file containing cluster
settings shared among the whole workspace. We also have an optional .mu/stacks/
directory that contains dependencies used during package management.
The notion of a "global" workspace will also be present, which is essentially just
a .mu/ directory in your home, ~/.mu/, that has an equivalent structure, but can be
shared among all workspaces on the same machine.
This change moves glogging into the Mu command, so that `mu --help`
actually shows the right thing. (Sadly, glog hijacks the command help.)
It also adds an option --logtostderr that redirects glog output to the
console.
This change mostly replaces explicit if/then/glog.Fatalf calls with
util.Assert calls. In addition, it adds a companion util.Fail family
of methods that does the same thing as a failed assertion, except that
it is unconditional.
If the first rune is unprintable, then we don't want to go ahead and force
capitalization on the next character. (Unlike any other non-first rune,
where of course we do.) In the case of a first rune, we want to let the
current default based on the pascal parameter take charge.
This uses normal AWS resource naming conventions during stack template
creation. Part of this is just a "best practice" thing, however, part of it
is also that we generate illegal names if Mu stacks have illegal characters
like /, -, and so on.
AWS uses capitalized property names for its markup, so we should
be looking for "Type" and "Properties", not "type" and "properties"
when validating that a aws/cf is formatted correctly.
This change eliminates the diag.Sink field, Diag, on the Compiland struct.
Instead, we should provide it at backend provider construction time. This
is consistent with how other phases of the compiler work and also ensures
the backends can properly implement the core.Phase interface.
This change implements the aws/cf extension provider, so that AWS resources
may be described and encapsulated inside of other stacks. Each aws/cf instantiation
requires just two fields -- type and properties -- corresponding to the equivalent
AWS resource object. The result is simply plugged in as an AWS resource, after
Mu templates have been expanded, permitting stack properties, etc. to be used.
The more I live with the current system, the more I prefer "properties" to
"parameters" for stacks and services. Although it is true that these things
are essentially construction-time arguments, they manifest more like properties
in the way they are used; in fact, if you think of the world in terms of primary
constructors, the distinction is pretty subtle anyway.
For example, when creating a new service, we say the following:
services:
private:
some/service:
a: 0
b: true
c: foo
This looks like a, b, and c are properties of the type some/service. If, on
the other hand, we kept calling these parameters, then you'd arguably prefer to
see the following:
services:
private:
some/service:
arguments:
a: 0
b: true
c: foo
This is a more imperative than declarative view of the world, which I dislike
(especially because it is more verbose).
Time will tell whether this is the right decision or not ...
This introduces three assertion functions:
* util.Assert: simply asserts a boolean condition, ripping the process using
glog should it fail, with a stock message.
* util.AssertM: asserts a boolean condition, also using glog if it fails,
but it comes with a message to help with debugging too.
* util.AssertMF: the same, except it formats the message with arguments.
During unmarshaling, the default behavior of the stock Golang JSON marshaler,
and consequently the YAML one we used which mimics its behavior, is to toss away
unrecognized properties. This isn't what we want for two reasons:
First, we want to issue errors/warnings on unrecognized fields to aid in diagnostics;
we will set aside some extensible section for 3rd parties to use. This is not
addressed in this change, however.
Second, and more pertinent, is that we need to retain unrecognized fields for certain
types like services, which are extensible by default.
Until golang/go#6213 is addressed -- imminent, it seems -- we will have to do a
somewhat hacky workaround to this problem. This change contains what I consider to
be the "least bad" in that we won't introduce a lot of performance overhead, and
just have to deal with the slight annoyance of the ast.Services node type containing
both Public/Private *and* PublicUntyped/PrivateUntyped fields alongside one another.
The marshaler dumps property bags into the *Untyped fields, and the parsetree analyzer
expands them out into a structured ast.Service type. Subsequent passes can then
ignore the *Untyped fields altogether.
Note that this would cause some marshaling funkiness if we ever wanted to remarshal
the mutated ASTs back into JSON/YAML. Since we don't do that right now, however, I've
not made any attempt to keep the two pairs in synch. Post-parsetree analyzer, we
literally just forget about the *Untyped guys.
This change rearranges the last checkin a little bit. Rather than storing
shadow BoundPublic/BoundPrivate maps, we will store the *ast.Stack directly on
the ast.Service node itself. This helps with context-free manipulation (e.g.,
you don't need access to the parent map just to interact with the node), and
simplifies the backend code quite a bit (again, less context to pass).
This is another change of mostly placeholders.
In general, there will be three kinds of types handled by code-generation:
* Mu primitives will be expanded into AWS goo in a very specialized way, to
accomplish the desired Mu semantics for those abstractions.
* AWS-specific extension types (mu/extension) will be recognized, so that we
can create special AWS resources like S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables, etc.
* Anything else is interpreted as a reference to another stack that will be
instantiated at deployment time (basically through template expansion).
This change does rearrange two noteworthy things in the core compiler, however:
first, it creates a place for bound nodes in the public and private service
references, so that the backend can access the raw stack types behind them; and
second, it moves the predefined types underneath their own package to avoid cycles.
This change introduces the notion of "Stack subclassing" in two ways:
1. A Stack may declare that it subclasses another one using the base property:
name: mystack
base: other/stack
.. as before ..
2. A Stack may declare that it is abstract; in other words, that it is meant
solely for subclassing, and cannot be compiled and deployed independently:
name: mystack
abstract: true
.. as before ..
Note that non-abstract Stacks are required to declare at least one Service,
whether that is public, private, or both.
This change rejiggers a few things so that we can more clearly introduce
a boundary between front- and back-end compiler phases, including sharing more,
like a diagnostics sink. Future extensions will include backend code-generation
options.
This change includes a few steps towards AWS backend code-generation:
* Add a BoundDependencies property to ast.Stack to remember the *ast.Stack
objects bound during Stack binding.
* Make a few CloudFormation properties optional (cfOutput Export/Condition).
* Rename clouds.ArchMap, clouds.ArchNames, schedulers.ArchMap, and
schedulers.ArchNames to clouds.Values, clouds.Names, schedulers.Values,
and schedulers.Names, respectively. This reads much nicer to my eyes.
* Create a new anonymous ast.Target for deployments if no specific target
was specified; this is to support quick-and-easy "one off" deployments,
as will be common when doing local development.
* Sketch out more of the AWS Cloud implementation. We actually map the
Mu Services into CloudFormation Resources; well, kinda sorta, since we
don't actually have Service-specific logic in here yet, however all of
the structure and scaffolding is now here.
We previously used stable enumeration of the various AST maps in the core
visitor, however we now need stable enumeration in more places (like the AWS
backend I am working on). This change refactors this logic to expose a set
of core ast.StableX routines that stably enumerate maps, and then simply uses
them in place of the existing visitor logic. (Missing generics right now...)
This change simply adds the necessary AWS CloudFormation struct types to
permit marshaling and unmarshaling to/from JSON and YAML. This will be used
by the AWS cloud provider's backend code-generation. It adds a bit of strong
typing so that we can catch more errors at compile-time (both for our own sanity
but also to provide developers better diagnostics when compiling their stacks).
This change adds a Backend Phase to the compiler, implemented by each of the
cloud/scheduler implementations. It also reorganizes some of the modules to
ensure we can do everything we need without cycles, including introducing the
mu/pkg/compiler/backends package, under which the clouds/ and schedulers/
sub-packages now reside. The backends.New(Arch) factory function acts as the
entrypoint into the entire thing so callers can easily create new Backend instances.
This change is more consistent with our approach to file extensions
elsewhere in the compiler, and prevents an explosion of APIs should we
ever want to support more.
This adds some tests around cloud targeting, in addition to enabling builds
to use in-memory Mufiles (mostly to make testing simpler, but this is a
generally useful capability to have when hosting the compiler API).
This change implements most of the cloud target and architecture detection
logic, along with associated verification and a bunch of new error messages.
There are two settings for picking a cloud destination:
* Architecture: this specifies the combination of cloud (e.g., AWS, GCP, etc)
plus scheduler (e.g., none, Swarm, ECS, etc).
* Target: a named, preconfigured entity that includes both an Architecture and
an assortment of extra default configuration options.
The general idea here is that you can preconfigure a set of Targets for
named environments like "prod", "stage", etc. Those can either exist in a
single Mufile, or the Mucluster file if they are shared amongst multiple
Mufiles. This can be specified at the command line as such:
$ mu build --target=stage
Furthermore, a given environment may be annointed the default, so that
$ mu build
selects that environment without needing to say so explicitly.
It is also possible to specify an architecture at the command line for
scenarios where you aren't intending to target an existing named environment.
This is good for "anonymous" testing scenarios or even just running locally:
$ mu build --arch=aws
$ mu build --arch=aws:ecs
$ mu build --arch=local:kubernetes
$ .. and so on ..
This change does little more than plumb these settings around, verify them,
etc., however it sets us up to actually start dispating to the right backend.
This change creates a new mu/pkg/compiler/core package for any fundamental
compiler types that need to be shared among the various compiler packages
(.../compiler, .../compiler/clouds/..., and .../compiler/schedulers/...).
This avoids package cycles.
This adds two packages:
mu/pkg/compiler/clouds
mu/pkg/compiler/schedulers
And introduces enums for the cloud targets we expect to support.
It also adds the ability at the command line to specify a provider;
for example:
$ mu build --target=aws # AWS native
$ mu build --target=aws:ecs # AWS ECS
$ mu build -t=gcp:kubernetes # Kube on GCP
This prepopulates the symbol table with our predefined "primitive" types
like mu/container, mu/gateway, mu/func, and the like. Also added a positive
test case to ensure the full set works; this will obviously need updating as
we embellish the predefined types with things like required parameters.
This change adds rudimentary type binding to phase 2 of the binder. Note that
we still don't have the notion of predefined types (for the primitives), so this
basically rejects any well-formed Mufile. Primitives are on deck.
