Artifact Promotion Tooling

• kpromo

kpromo

kpromo, or the Kubernetes Promotion Tool, is the canonical tool for promoting Kubernetes project artifacts.

It wraps and unifies the functionality of multiple tools that have existed in the past:

• cip
• gh2gcs
• krel promote-images
• promobot-files

Installation

Requirements:

• [Docker][docker]
• [Go][golang]

User

If you're interested in installing kpromo from a tag:

go install sigs.k8s.io/promo-tools/v4/cmd/kpromo@<tag>
$(go env GOPATH)/bin/kpromo <subcommand>

Developer

If you're interested in actively contributing to kpromo or testing functionality which may not yet be in a tagged release, first fork/clone the repo and then run:

go install ./cmd/kpromo/...
$(go env GOPATH)/bin/kpromo <subcommand>

Usage

Usage:
  kpromo [command]
Available Commands:
  cip         Promote images from a staging registry to production
  completion  generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  gh          Uploads GitHub releases to Google Cloud Storage
  help        Help about any command
  manifest    Generate/modify a manifest for artifact promotion
  pr          Starts an image promotion for a given image tag
  run         Run artifact promotion
  sigcheck    Check and repair image signatures and promotion attestations
  version     Prints the version

Image promotion

For background on the image promotion process, see here.

To create an image promotion PR via kpromo pr, see here.

File promotion

See here.

GitHub promotion

See here.

[docker]: https://docs.docker.com/get-docker [golang]: https://golang.org/doc/install