Announcing riff v0.1.3

September 21, 2018

We are pleased to announce the release of riff v0.1.3. Thank you riff and Knative contributors.

The riff CLI can be downloaded from our releases page on GitHub. Please follow one of the getting started guides, to create a new cluster on GKE or minikube. To update an existing riff install first run riff system uninstall --istio. This release includes new manifests for the latest Knative and Istio.

Here's an overview of some of the new features in riff v0.1.3:

credential helpers

Initializing a namespace with your push credentials is easier now.

point to your GCR key

riff namespace init default --gcr <path-to-json-file>

or enter the password for your $DOCKER_ID when prompted

riff namespace init default --dockerhub $DOCKER_ID

riff buildpack for java

This release supports building java functions from source, either locally or on-cluster. Both variants use a new riff buildpack for java.

NOTE: to preserve the old behavior of building containers with a pre-compiled jar file, use riff function create jar.

All you need in your directory is the code with a maven pom, and the name of the handler class in a file called riff.toml. The example below uses a sample java-hello function available on GitHub.

riff.toml

handler = "functions.Hello"

To build from code in a directory and push to local docker:

riff function create java hello \
  --local-path . \
  --image dev.local/java-hello:v1

Using a --local-path builds code directly from your machine. The dev.local prefix exports the image to your docker environment. Remember to run eval $(minikube docker-env) for minikube.

NOTE: pre-existing images with tags matching --image will result in an error "Reading information from previous image for possible re-use". Remove those images first.

You can iterate on your code by rebuilding locally, triggering a new Knative Revision for each build.

riff function build hello --local-path path/to/function/source

To build from code on GitHub and push to DockerHub:

riff function create java hello \
    --git-repo https://github.com/projectriff-samples/java-hello.git \
    --image $DOCKER_ID/java-hello \
    --verbose

Using --verbose shows the progress of the build as it's happening in the cluster. For GCR, replace $DOCKER_ID with your gcr.io/$GCP_PROJECT.

simpler riff service invoke

You can now call riff service invoke with --text or --json to set the Content-Type header.

invoke the hello function with text input

riff service invoke hello --text -- -w '\n' -d world

riff subscription commands

Subscriptions now have their own separate CLI commands. The corresponding options on riff function and riff service have been removed.

create

Usage:
  riff subscription create [SUBSCRIPTION_NAME] [flags]

Examples:
  riff subscription create --channel tweets --subscriber tweets-logger
  riff subscription create my-subscription --channel tweets --subscriber tweets-logger
  riff subscription create --channel tweets --subscriber tweets-logger --reply-to logged-tweets

Flags:
  -c, --channel string      the input channel of the subscription
  -r, --reply-to string     the optional output channel of the subscription
  -s, --subscriber string   the subscriber of the subscription

delete

Usage:
  riff subscription delete SUBSCRIPTION_NAME [flags]

Example:
  riff subscription delete my-subscription --namespace joseph-ns

list

Usage:
  riff subscription list [flags]
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