XLD Argos Plugin

Preface

This document describes the functionality provided by the XL Deploy Argos Plugin, an interface to the Argos Software SupplyChain Notary

Overview

The XLD Argos plugin allows for verifying on the Argos Service that the Deployment Package is created during a valid process. The verfication can be done on the Deployment Package or during every deployment.

Features

• Do an Argos verification on a Deployment Package
• Verify a Deployment Package before deployment.

Requirements

• XLD Server 8.0+

Installation

Place the 'xld-argos-plugin-<version>.xlpd' file into your SERVER_HOME/plugins directory.

Place the file 'argos.properties' into your SERVER_HOME/conf directory. With at least the property argos.service.base.url.

   argos.service.base.url=https://<argos service hostname>/api

Configure XLDeploy Credentials

Property settings settings.

The following properties can be set in the argos.properties file.

Property	Default	Possible Values	Description
argos.service.base.url	http://localhost:8080/api		Url of the Argos Service
argos.service.actuator.uri	actuator/health		uri to check status of Argos Service
argos.verification.status	DISABLED	DISABLED	do no verification, if not enabled on the Environment
		ENABLED	do always a verification, independent of Environment setting
argos.action.on.invalid	NONE	NONE	No action on invalid verification of deployment package
		WARN	Warn on invalid verification of deployment package
		ABORT	Abort deployment on invalid verification of deployment package
xld.base.url	http://localhost:4516/deployit		Url for this XL Deploy instance to do REST calls
argos.xld.client.conf.id	Configuration/config/administration/argos/xldconfig		argos.xldeploy Ci with XL Deploy credentials
argos.result.prefix	Package: %s		log message prefix
argos.abort.template	\ has an invalid Argos Notary Verification, abort		log message on abort
argos.warn.template	\ has an invalid Argos Notary Verification, this is a warning		log message on warn
argos.none.template	\ has an invalid Argos Notary Verification but an action is not defined		log message on no action
argos.valid.template	\ is valid according Argos Notary Verification		log message prefix

Argos Notary for Deployment Packages and Environment.

Configuration.

Define NPA.

For the verification of the Deployment Package an an Argos Service account is needed. The account should be created on the same pranch as the SupplyChain. During this creation a keyid and a passphrase are presented, these are needed for the configuration in XLDeploy.

Choose in the Environments branch in XLDeploy for New > argos > NonPersonalAccount

Fill in a relevant name and the keyid and the passphrase of the account in the Argos Service

Configure Application.

On an Application for which the Deployment Packages should be verified the SupplyChain name in the Argos Service should be defined and the Non Personal Account which should do the verification.

The SupplyChain name should be qualified in the Gradle way ([group name]:[supply chain name])

Configure Environment.

On the Environments it is possible to enable or disable the verification during deployment. The setting in the configuration file argos.properties takes precedence over this setting at least if that setting has a higher level.

Setting	Default	Possible Values	Description
Verify with Argos	DISABLED	DISABLED	do no verification, if not enabled globally
		ENABLED	do always a verification
Action On Invalid	NONE	NONE	No action on invalid verification of deployment package
		WARN	Warn on invalid verification of deployment package
		ABORT	Abort deployment on invalid verification of deployment package

Verify a package.

It is possible to check the verification with a task on the Deployment Package.

Verification during deployment.

If verification is enabled, a verification will be done as the first step during every deployment, except for NOOPand DESTROY operations.

    | # [Phased plan] 
    | # [Plan phase] Deploy
    |  * Deploy on localhost
    |    -------------------
    |  1. (  0) - Argos Notary Verification Step  (step: ArgosVerificationStep, rule: com.xebialabs.deployit.community.argos.ArgosVerificationStepGenerator.contribute)
    |  2. ( 10) - Stop tomcat  (step: ScriptExecutionStep, rule: com.xebialabs.deployit.plugin.generic.container.LifeCycleContributor.restartContainers)
    |  3. ( 60) - Create war settings in argos-test-app.xml on localhost  (step: TemplateArtifactCopyStep, rule: tomcat.WarModule.executeCreate_CREATE)
    |  4. ( 70) - Create argos-test-app.war on localhost  (step: ArtifactCopyStep, rule: tomcat.WarModule.executeCreate_CREATE)
    |             *checkpoint*  CREATE Infrastructure/argos/tomcat/tomcat/localhost/argos-test-app.war
    |  5. ( 90) - Start tomcat  (step: ScriptExecutionStep, rule: com.xebialabs.deployit.plugin.generic.container.LifeCycleContributor.restartContainers)
    | # [Plan phase] 
    |  * Register changes for argos-test-app
    |    -----------------------------------
    |  1. (100) - Register deployeds  (step: RepositoryUpdateStep, rule: null)