This guide will help familiarize contributors to the containerd/containerd
repository.
First read the containerd project's general guidelines around contribution which apply to all containerd projects.
See BUILDING.md
for instructions for setting up a development environment.
If you are also a new user to containerd, you can first check out the Getting started with containerd guide.
At a minimum, the dev tools from script/setup/install-dev-tools
should be installed.
Run make install-deps
to install dependencies used for running and developing the CRI plugin.
Other install scripts under script/setup
may need to be run depending on your environment and your preference for installing libraries and dependencies.
The versions used by containerd/containerd
CI can be found in script/setup
and referred to if installing manually.
$ script/setup/install-dev-tools
$ make install-deps
- Go files adhere to standard Go formatting and styling
- Protobuf files use tabs for indentation
- Other files must not contain trailing whitespace and should end with a single new line character
Use the check
command in the makefile to verify your code matches the expected style.
make check
Ensure protoc and dev tools have been installed, then run make protos
Note When running
make protos
, the current working directory should be found under theGOPATH
environment variable to ensure protoc can properly resolve the paths of protofiles in the project.
Package names should be short and simple. Avoid using _
and repeating words from parent directories.
Try to put a new package under the appropriate root directories. The root directory is reserved for configuration and build files, no source files will be accepted in root since containerd v2.0.
api
- All protobuf service definitions and types used by servicesbin
- Autogenerated during build, do not check in file hereclient
- All Go files for the containerd client (formerly incontainerd/containerd
root in 1.x)cmd
- All Go main packages and the packages used only for that main packagecontrib
- Files, configurations, and packages related to external tools or librariescore
- Core Go packages with interface definitions and built-in implementationsdocs
- All containerd technical documentation using markdowninternal
- All utility packages used by containerd and not intended for direct importman
- All containerd reference manuals used for theman
commandpkg
- Non-core Go packages used by clients and other containerd packagesplugins
- All included containerd plugins which are registered via initreleases
- All release note filesscript
- All scripts used for testing, development, and CItest
- Test scripts used for external end to end testing of containerd, do not add new files herevendor
- Autogenerated vendor files frommake vendor
command, do not manually edit files hereversion
- Version package with the current containerd version