This change implements the same preview behavior we have for
cloud stacks, in pkg/backend/httpbe, for local stacks, in
pkg/backend/filebe. This mostly required just refactoring bits
and pieces so that we can share more of the code, although it
does still entail quite a bit of redundancy. In particular, the
apply functions for both backends are now so close to being
unified, but still require enough custom logic that it warrants
keeping them separate (for now...)
This simply refactors all the display logic out of the
pkg/backend/filestate package. This helps to gear us up to better unify
this logic between the filestate and httpstate backends.
Furthermore, this really ought to be in its own non-backend,
CLI-specific package, but I'm taking one step at a time here.
We already walk through creating a stack and prompting for required
config, and then tell the user to run `pulumi up` to do an initial
deployment. Instead, just proceed with the `up` automatically.
Replace the Source-based implementation of refresh with a phase that
runs as the first part of plan execution and rewrites the snapshot in-memory.
In order to fit neatly within the existing framework for resource operations,
these changes introduce a new kind of step, RefreshStep, to represent
refreshes. RefreshSteps operate similar to ReadSteps but do not imply that
the resource being read is not managed by Pulumi.
In addition to the refresh reimplementation, these changes incorporate those
from #1394 to run refresh in the integration test framework.
Fixes#1598.
Fixespulumi/pulumi-terraform#165.
Contributes to #1449.
* Add a list of in-flight operations to the deployment
This commit augments 'DeploymentV2' with a list of operations that are
currently in flight. This information is used by the engine to keep
track of whether or not a particular deployment is in a valid state.
The SnapshotManager is responsible for inserting and removing operations
from the in-flight operation list. When the engine registers an intent
to perform an operation, SnapshotManager inserts an Operation into this
list and saves it to the snapshot. When an operation completes, the
SnapshotManager removes it from the snapshot. From this, the engine can
infer that if it ever sees a deployment with pending operations, the
Pulumi CLI must have crashed or otherwise abnormally terminated before
seeing whether or not an operation completed successfully.
To remedy this state, this commit also adds code to 'pulumi stack
import' that clears all pending operations from a deployment, as well as
code to plan generation that will reject any deployments that have
pending operations present.
At the CLI level, if we see that we are in a state where pending
operations were in-flight when the engine died, we'll issue a
human-friendly error message that indicates which resources are in a bad
state and how to recover their stack.
* CR: Multi-line string literals, renaming in-flight -> pending
* CR: Add enum to apitype for operation type, also name status -> type for clarity
* Fix the yaml type
* Fix missed renames
* Add implementation for lifecycle_test.go
* Rebase against master
* Initial support for passing URLs to `new` and `up`
This PR adds initial support for `pulumi new` using Git under the covers
to manage Pulumi templates, providing the same experience as before.
You can now also optionally pass a URL to a Git repository, e.g.
`pulumi new [<url>]`, including subdirectories within the repository,
and arbitrary branches, tags, or commits.
The following commands result in the same behavior from the user's
perspective:
- `pulumi new javascript`
- `pulumi new https://github.com/pulumi/templates/templates/javascript`
- `pulumi new https://github.com/pulumi/templates/tree/master/templates/javascript`
- `pulumi new https://github.com/pulumi/templates/tree/HEAD/templates/javascript`
To specify an arbitrary branch, tag, or commit:
- `pulumi new https://github.com/pulumi/templates/tree/<branch>/templates/javascript`
- `pulumi new https://github.com/pulumi/templates/tree/<tag>/templates/javascript`
- `pulumi new https://github.com/pulumi/templates/tree/<commit>/templates/javascript`
Branches and tags can include '/' separators, and `pulumi` will still
find the right subdirectory.
URLs to Gists are also supported, e.g.:
`pulumi new https://gist.github.com/justinvp/6673959ceb9d2ac5a14c6d536cb871a6`
If the specified subdirectory in the repository does not contain a
`Pulumi.yaml`, it will look for subdirectories within containing
`Pulumi.yaml` files, and prompt the user to choose a template, along the
lines of how `pulumi new` behaves when no template is specified.
The following commands result in the CLI prompting to choose a template:
- `pulumi new`
- `pulumi new https://github.com/pulumi/templates/templates`
- `pulumi new https://github.com/pulumi/templates/tree/master/templates`
- `pulumi new https://github.com/pulumi/templates/tree/HEAD/templates`
Of course, arbitrary branches, tags, or commits can be specified as well:
- `pulumi new https://github.com/pulumi/templates/tree/<branch>/templates`
- `pulumi new https://github.com/pulumi/templates/tree/<tag>/templates`
- `pulumi new https://github.com/pulumi/templates/tree/<commit>/templates`
This PR also includes initial support for passing URLs to `pulumi up`,
providing a streamlined way to deploy installable cloud applications
with Pulumi, without having to manage source code locally before doing
a deployment.
For example, `pulumi up https://github.com/justinvp/aws` can be used to
deploy a sample AWS app. The stack can be updated with different
versions, e.g.
`pulumi up https://github.com/justinvp/aws/tree/v2 -s <stack-to-update>`
Config values can optionally be passed via command line flags, e.g.
`pulumi up https://github.com/justinvp/aws -c aws:region=us-west-2 -c foo:bar=blah`
Gists can also be used, e.g.
`pulumi up https://gist.github.com/justinvp/62fde0463f243fcb49f5a7222e51bc76`
* Fix panic when hitting ^C from "choose template" prompt
* Add description to templates
When running `pulumi new` without specifying a template, include the template description along with the name in the "choose template" display.
```
$ pulumi new
Please choose a template:
aws-go A minimal AWS Go program
aws-javascript A minimal AWS JavaScript program
aws-python A minimal AWS Python program
aws-typescript A minimal AWS TypeScript program
> go A minimal Go program
hello-aws-javascript A simple AWS serverless JavaScript program
javascript A minimal JavaScript program
python A minimal Python program
typescript A minimal TypeScript program
```
* React to changes to the pulumi/templates repo.
We restructured the `pulumi/templates` repo to have all the templates in the root instead of in a `templates` subdirectory, so make the change here to no longer look for templates in `templates`.
This also fixes an issue around using `Depth: 1` that I found while testing this. When a named template is used, we attempt to clone or pull from the `pulumi/templates` repo to `~/.pulumi/templates`. Having it go in this well-known directory allows us to maintain previous behavior around allowing offline use of templates. If we use `Depth: 1` for the initial clone, it will fail when attempting to pull when there are updates to the remote repository. Unfortunately, there's no built-in `--unshallow` support in `go-git` and setting a larger `Depth` doesn't appear to help. There may be a workaround, but for now, if we're cloning the pulumi templates directory to `~/.pulumi/templates`, we won't use `Depth: 1`. For template URLs, we will continue to use `Depth: 1` as we clone those to a temp directory (which gets deleted) that we'll never try to update.
* List available templates in help text
* Address PR Feedback
* Don't show "Installing dependencies" message for `up`
* Fix secrets handling
When prompting for config, if the existing stack value is a secret, keep it a secret and mask the prompt. If the template says it should be secret, make it a secret.
* Fix ${PROJECT} and ${DESCRIPTION} handling for `up`
Templates used with `up` should already have a filled-in project name and description, but if it's a `new`-style template, that has `${PROJECT}` and/or `${DESCRIPTION}`, be helpful and just replace these with better values.
* Fix stack handling
Add a bool `setCurrent` param to `requireStack` to control whether the current stack should be saved in workspace settings. For the `up <url>` case, we don't want to save. Also, split the `up` code into two separate functions: one for the `up <url>` case and another for the normal `up` case where you have workspace in your current directory. While we may be able to combine them back into a single function, right now it's a bit cleaner being separate, even with some small amount of duplication.
* Fix panic due to nil crypter
Lazily get the crypter only if needed inside `promptForConfig`.
* Embellish comment
* Harden isPreconfiguredEmptyStack check
Fix the code to check to make sure the URL specified on the command line matches the URL stored in the `pulumi:template` config value, and that the rest of the config from the stack satisfies the config requirements of the template.
Instead of needing you to first select the current stack to use any of
these commands, allow passing `-s <stack-name>` or `--stack
<stack-name>` to say what stack you want to operate on.
These commands still require a `Pulumi.yaml` file to be present, which
is not ideal, but would require a larger refactoring to fix. That
refactoring will happen as part of #1556.
Fixes#1370
These changes enable tracing of Pulumi API calls.
The span with which to associate an API call is passed via a
`context.Context` parameter. This required plumbing a
`context.Context` parameter through a rather large number of APIs,
especially in the backend.
In general, all API calls are associated with a new root span that
exists for essentially the entire lifetime of an invocation of the
Pulumi CLI. There were a few places where the plumbing got a bit hairier
than I was willing to address with these changes; I've used
`context.Background()` in these instances. API calls that receive this
context will create new root spans, but will still be traced.
This changes the CLI interface in a few ways:
* `pulumi preview` is back! The alternative of saying
`pulumi update --preview` just felt awkward, and it's a common
operation to want to perform. Let's just make it work.
* There are two flags consistent across all update commands,
`update`, `refresh`, and `destroy`:
- `--skip-preview` will skip the preview step. Note that this
does *not* skip the prompt to confirm that you'd like to proceed.
Indeed, it will still prompt, with a little warning text about
the fact that the preview has been skipped.
* `--yes` will auto-approve the updates.
This lands us in a simpler and more intuitive spot for common scenarios.
I found the flag --force to be a strange name for skipping a preview,
since that name is usually reserved for operations that might be harmful
and yet you're coercing a tool to do it anyway, knowing there's a chance
you're going to shoot yourself in the foot.
I also found that what I almost always want in the situation where
--force was being used is to actually just run a preview and have the
confirmation auto-accepted. Going straight to --force isn't the right
thing in a CI scenario, where you actually want to run a preview first,
just to ensure there aren't any issues, before doing the update.
In a sense, there are four options here:
1. Run a preview, ask for confirmation, then do an update (the default).
2. Run a preview, auto-accept, and then do an update (the CI scenario).
3. Just run a preview with neither a confirmation nor an update (dry run).
4. Just do an update, without performing a preview beforehand (rare).
This change enables all four workflows in our CLI.
Rather than have an explosion of flags, we have a single flag,
--preview, which can specify the mode that we're operating in. The
following are the values which correlate to the above four modes:
1. "": default (no --preview specified)
2. "auto": auto-accept preview confirmation
3. "only": only run a preview, don't confirm or update
4. "skip": skip the preview altogether
As part of this change, I redid a bit of how the preview modes
were specified. Rather than booleans, which had some illegal
combinations, this change introduces a new enum type. Furthermore,
because the engine is wholly ignorant of these flags -- and only the
backend understands them -- it was confusing to me that
engine.UpdateOptions stored this flag, especially given that all
interesting engine options _also_ accepted a dryRun boolean. As of
this change, the backend.PreviewBehavior controls the preview options.
hese changes plumb basic support for cancellation through the engine.
Two types of cancellation are supported for all engine operations:
- Cancellation, which waits for the operation to drive itself to a safe
point before the operation returns, and
- Termination, which does not wait for the operation to drive itself
to a safe opint for the operation returns.
When updating local or managed stacks, a single ^C triggers cancellation
of any running operation; a second ^C will trigger termination.
Fixes#513, #1077.
This change implements a `pulumi refresh` command. It operates a bit
like `pulumi update`, and friends, in that it supports `--preview` and
`--diff`, along with the usual flags, and will update your checkpoint.
It works through substitution of the deploy.Source abstraction, which
generates a sequence of resource registration events. This new
deploy.RefreshSource takes in a prior checkpoint and will walk it,
refreshing the state via the associated resource providers by invoking
Read for each resource encountered, and merging the resulting state with
the prior checkpoint, to yield a new resource.Goal state. This state is
then fed through the engine in the usual ways with a few minor caveats:
namely, although the engine must generate steps for the logical
operations (permitting us to get nice summaries, progress, and diffs),
it mustn't actually carry them out because the state being imported
already reflects reality (a deleted resource has *already* been deleted,
so of course the engine need not perform the deletion). The diffing
logic also needs to know how to treat the case of refresh slightly
differently, because we are going to be diffing outputs and not inputs.
Note that support for managed stacks is not yet complete, since that
requires updates to the service to support a refresh endpoint. That
will be coming soon ...
Long term, a stack name alone will not be sufficent to address a
stack. Introduce a new `backend.StackReference` interface that allows
each backend to give an opaque stack reference that can be used across
operations.
The engine now emits events with richer metadata during the
ResourceOutputs and ResourcePre callbacks. The CLI can then use this
information to decide if it should display the event or not and how
much of the event to display.
Options dealing with what to display and how to display it have moved
into the CLI and the engine now emits all information for each event.
The engine now unconditionally emits a new type of event, a
PreludeEvent, which contains the configuration for a stack as well as
an indication if the stack is being previewed or updated. The
responsibility for interpreting the --show-config flag on the command
line is now handled by the CLI, which uses this to decide if it should
print the configuration or not, and then writes the "Previewing
changes" or "Deploying chanages" header.
This change implements basic plugin management, but we do not yet
actually use the plugins for anything (that comes next).
Plugins are stored in `~/.pulumi/plugins`, and are expected to be
in the format `pulumi-<KIND>-<NAME>-v<VERSION>[.exe]`. The KIND is
one of `analyzer`, `language`, or `resource`, the NAME is a hyphen-
delimited name (e.g., `aws` or `foo-bar`), and VERSION is the
plugin's semantic version (e.g., `0.9.11`, `1.3.7-beta.a736cf`, etc).
This commit includes four new CLI commands:
* `pulumi plugin` is the top-level plugin command. It does nothing
but show the help text for associated child commands.
* `pulumi plugin install` can be used to install plugins manually.
If run with no additional arguments, it will compute the set of
plugins used by the current project, and download them all. It
may be run to explicitly download a single plugin, however, by
invoking it as `pulumi plugin install KIND NAME VERSION`. For
example, `pulumi plugin install resource aws v0.9.11`. By default,
this command uses the cloud backend in the usual way to perform the
download, although a separate URL may be given with --cloud-url,
just like all other commands that interact with our backend service.
* `pulumi plugin ls` lists all plugins currently installed in the
plugin cache. It displays some useful statistics, like the size
of the plugin, when it was installed, when it was last used, and
so on. It sorts the display alphabetically by plugin name, and
for plugins with multiple versions, it shows the newest at the top.
The command also summarizes how much disk space is currently being
consumed by the plugin cache. There are no filtering capabilities yet.
* `pulumi plugin prune` will delete plugins from the cache. By
default, when run with no arguments, it will delete everything.
It may be run with additional arguments, KIND, NAME, and VERSION,
each one getting more specific about what it will delete. For
instance, `pulumi plugin prune resource aws` will delete all AWS
plugin versions, while `pulumi plugin prune resource aws <0.9`
will delete all AWS plugins before version 0.9. Unless --yes is
passed, the command will confirm the deletion with a count of how
many plugins will be affected by the command.
We do not yet actually download plugins on demand yet. That will
come in a subsequent change.
This change includes a handful of stack-related CLI formatting
improvements that I've been noodling on in the background for a while,
based on things that tend to trip up demos and the inner loop workflow.
This includes:
* If `pulumi stack select` is run by itself, use an interactive
CLI menu to let the user select an existing stack, or choose to
create a new one. This looks as follows
$ pulumi stack select
Please choose a stack, or choose to create a new one:
abcdef
babblabblabble
> currentlyselected
defcon
<create a new stack>
and is navigated in the usual way (key up, down, enter).
* If a stack name is passed that does not exist, prompt the user
to ask whether s/he wants to create one on-demand. This hooks
interesting moments in time, like `pulumi stack select foo`,
and cuts down on the need to run additional commands.
* If a current stack is required, but none is currently selected,
then pop the same interactive menu shown above to select one.
Depending on the command being run, we may or may not show the
option to create a new stack (e.g., that doesn't make much sense
when you're running `pulumi destroy`, but might when you're
running `pulumi stack`). This again lets you do with a single
command what would have otherwise entailed an error with multiple
commands to recover from it.
* If you run `pulumi stack init` without any additional arguments,
we interactively prompt for the stack name. Before, we would
error and you'd then need to run `pulumi stack init <name>`.
* Colorize some things nicely; for example, now all prompts will
by default become bright white.
This addresses pulumi/pulumi#446: what we used to call "package" is
now called "project". This has gotten more confusing over time, now
that we're doing real package management.
Also fixespulumi/pulumi#426, while in here.
The existing logic would flow colorization information into the
engine, so depending on the settings in the CLI, the engine may or may
not have emitted colorized events. This coupling is not great and we
want to start moving to a world where the presentation happens
exclusively at the CLI level.
With this change, the engine will always produce strings that have the
colorization formatting directives (i.e. the directives that
reconquest/loreley understands) and the CLI will apply
colorization (which could mean either running loreley to turn the
directives into ANSI escape codes, or drop them or retain them, for
debuging purposes).
Fixes#742
This PR adds a new `pulumi history` command, which prints the update history for a stack.
The local backend stores the update history in a JSON file on disk, next to the checkpoint file. The cloud backend simply provides the update metadata, and expects to receive all the data from a (NYI) `/history` REST endpoint.
`pkg/backend/updates.go` defines the data that is being persisted. The way the data is wired through the system is adding a new `backend.UpdateMetadata` parameter to a Stack/Backend's `Update` and `Destroy` methods.
I use `tests/integration/stack_outputs/` as the simple app for the related tests, hence the addition to the `.gitignore` and fixing the name in the `Pulumi.yaml`.
Fixes#636.
This PR surfaces the configuration options available to updates, previews, and destroys to the Pulumi Service. As part of this I refactored the options to unify them into a single `engine.UpdateOptions`, since they were all overlapping to various degrees.
With this PR we are adding several new flags to commands, e.g. `--summary` was not available on `pulumi destroy`.
There are also a few minor breaking changes.
- `pulumi destroy --preview` is now `pulumi destroy --dry-run` (to match the actual name of the field).
- The default behavior for "--color" is now `Always`. Previously it was `Always` or `Never` based on the value of a `--debug` flag. (You can specify `--color always` or `--color never` to get the exact behavior.)
Fixes#515, and cleans up the code making some other features slightly easier to add.
These changes refactor the engine's entrypoints--Deploy, Destroy, and
Preview--to be update-centric rather than stack-centric. Each of these
methods now takes a value of a new type, Update, that abstracts away the
vagaries of fetching and maintaining the update's state. This
refactoring also reinforces Pulumi.yaml as a CLI concept rather than an
engine concept; the CLI is now the only reader/writer of this format.
These changes will smooth the way for a few refactorings on the service
side that will aid in update isolation.
Our recent changes to colorization changed from a boolean to a tri-valued
enum (Always, Never, Raw). The events from the service, however, are still
boolean-valued. This changes the message payload to carry the full values.
Part of the work to make it easier to tests of diff output. Specifically, we now allow users to pass --color=option for several pulumi commands. 'option' can be one of 'always', 'never', 'raw', and 'auto' (the default).
The meaning of these flags are:
1. auto: colorize normally, unless in --debug
2. always: always colorize no matter what
3. never: never colorize no matter what.
4. raw: colorize, but preserve the original "<{%%}>" style control codes and not the translated platform specific codes. This is for testing purposes and ensures we can have test for this stuff across platform.
This change implements some feedback from @ellismg.
* Make backend.Stack an interface and let backends implement it,
enabling dynamic type testing/casting to access information
specific to that backend. For instance, the cloud.Stack conveys
the cloud URL, org name, and PPC name, for each stack.
* Similarly expose specialized backend.Backend interfaces,
local.Backend and cloud.Backend, to convey specific information.
* Redo a bunch of the commands in terms of these.
* Keeping with this theme, turn the CreateStack options into an
opaque interface{}, and let the specific backends expose their
own structures with their own settings (like PPC name in cloud).
* Show both the org and PPC names in the cloud column printed in
the stack ls command, in addition to the Pulumi Cloud URL.
Unrelated, but useful:
* Special case the 401 HTTP response and make a friendly error,
to tell the developer they must use `pulumi login`. This is
better than tossing raw "401: Unauthorized" errors in their face.
* Change the "Updating stack '..' in the Pulumi Cloud" message to
use the correct action verb ("Previewing", "Destroying", etc).
This improves the overall cloud CLI experience workflow.
Now whether a stack is local or cloud is inherent to the stack
itself. If you interact with a cloud stack, we transparently talk
to the cloud; if you interact with a local stack, we just do the
right thing, and perform all operations locally. Aside from sometimes
seeing a cloud emoji pop-up ☁️, the experience is quite similar.
For example, to initialize a new cloud stack, simply:
$ pulumi login
Logging into Pulumi Cloud: https://pulumi.com/
Enter Pulumi access token: <enter your token>
$ pulumi stack init my-cloud-stack
Note that you may log into a specific cloud if you'd like. For
now, this is just for our own testing purposes, but someday when we
support custom clouds (e.g., Enterprise), you can just say:
$ pulumi login --cloud-url https://corp.acme.my-ppc.net:9873
The cloud is now the default. If you instead prefer a "fire and
forget" style of stack, you can skip the login and pass `--local`:
$ pulumi stack init my-faf-stack --local
If you are logged in and run `pulumi`, we tell you as much:
$ pulumi
Usage:
pulumi [command]
// as before...
Currently logged into the Pulumi Cloud ☁️https://pulumi.com/
And if you list your stacks, we tell you which one is local or not:
$ pulumi stack ls
NAME LAST UPDATE RESOURCE COUNT CLOUD URL
my-cloud-stack 2017-12-01 ... 3 https://pulumi.com/
my-faf-stack n/a 0 n/a
And `pulumi stack` by itself prints information like your cloud org,
PPC name, and so on, in addition to the usuals.
I shall write up more details and make sure to document these changes.
This change also fairly significantly refactors the layout of cloud
versus local logic, so that the cmd/ package is resonsible for CLI
things, and the new pkg/backend/ package is responsible for the
backends. The following is the overall resulting package architecture:
* The backend.Backend interface can be implemented to substitute
a new backend. This has operations to get and list stacks,
perform updates, and so on.
* The backend.Stack struct is a wrapper around a stack that has
or is being manipulated by a Backend. It resembles our existing
Stack notions in the engine, but carries additional metadata
about its source. Notably, it offers functions that allow
operations like updating and deleting on the Backend from which
it came.
* There is very little else in the pkg/backend/ package.
* A new package, pkg/backend/local/, encapsulates all local state
management for "fire and forget" scenarios. It simply implements
the above logic and contains anything specific to the local
experience.
* A peer package, pkg/backend/cloud/, encapsulates all logic
required for the cloud experience. This includes its subpackage
apitype/ which contains JSON schema descriptions required for
REST calls against the cloud backend. It also contains handy
functions to list which clouds we have authenticated with.
* A subpackage here, pkg/backend/state/, is not a provider at all.
Instead, it contains all of the state management functions that
are currently shared between local and cloud backends. This
includes configuration logic -- including encryption -- as well
as logic pertaining to which stacks are known to the workspace.
This addresses pulumi/pulumi#629 and pulumi/pulumi#494.
Previously, we were inconsistent on how we handled argument validation
in the CLI. Many commands used cobra.Command's Args property to
provide a validator if they took arguments, but commands which did not
rarely used cobra.NoArgs to indicate this.
This change does two things:
1. Introduce `cmdutil.ArgsFunc` which works like `cmdutil.RunFunc`, it
wraps an existing cobra type and lets us control the behavior when an
arguments validator fails.
2. Ensure every command sets the Args property with an instance of
cmdutil.ArgsFunc. The cmdutil package defines wrapers for all the
cobra validators we are using, to prevent us from having to spell out
`cmduitl.ArgsFunc(...)` everywhere.
Fixes#588
This change introduces an abstraction for a `backend` which manages
the implementation of some CLI commands. As part of defining the
interface, we introduce a new local backend implementation that just
uses data local to the machine.
This will let us share argument parsing and some display information
between the local case and the pulumi.com case in the CLI. We can
continue to refine this interface over time (e.g. today we have the
implementation of the Destroy/Update/Preview actually writing output
but instead they should be returning strongly typed data that the CLI
knows how to display and is unified across Pulumi.com deploys and
local deploys).
But this is a good first step.
We now encrypt secrets at rest based on a key derived from a user
suplied passphrase.
The system is designed in a way such that we should be able to have a
different decrypter (either using a local key or some remote service
in the Pulumi.com case in the future).
Care is taken to ensure that we do not leak decrypted secrets into the
"info" section of the checkpoint file (since we currently store the
config there).
In addtion, secrets are "pay for play", a passphrase is only needed
when dealing with a value that's encrypted. If secure config values
are not used, `pulumi` will never prompt you for a
passphrase. Otherwise, we only prompt if we know we are going to need
to decrypt the value. For example, `pulumi config <key>` only prompts
if `<key>` is encrypted and `pulumi deploy` and friends only prompt if
you are targeting a stack that has secure configuration assoicated
with it.
Secure values show up as unecrypted config values inside the language
hosts and providers.
The event diagnostic goroutines could error out sometimes during
early program exits, due to a race between the goroutine writing to
the channel and the early exiting goroutine which closed the channel.
This change stops closing the channels entirely on the abrupt exit
paths, since it's not necessary and we want to exit immediately.
I sometimes revert back to some ancient version of the system, and
I figure with so many other tools using different verbs here, it's
worth at least improving our help text with the SuggestFors.
The change to use a Goroutine for pumping output causes a hang
when an error occurs. This is because we unconditionally block
on the <-done channel, even though the failure means the done
will actually never occur. This changes the logic to only wait
on the channel if we successfully began the operation in question.