Announcing riff v0.2.0

November 19, 2018

We are happy to announce the release of riff v0.2.0. Thank you once again, all riff, Buildpacks, 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.

Notable changes in this release include:

  • All builds now use Buildpacks
  • No more special-case builds of images starting with dev.local
  • riff function create
    • no <invoker> argument before the <name> argument
    • new optional --invoker flag
  • riff function build has been renamed riff function update
  • riff service revise has been renamed riff service update
  • riff namespace init has a new --no-secret flag

Buildpacks everywhere!

This release extends the use of buildpacks across all of our currently supported invokers: Java, JavaScript, and Command.

Here is a map of the buildpack-related repos on Github.

Function Create

Since buildpacks do detection, we have simplified what used to be:
riff function create <invoker> <name>

The new syntax is:
riff function create <name>

A new --invoker <invokername> flag allows overrides.

Detection Logic

  • The presence of a pom.xml or build.gradle file will trigger compilation and building of an image for running a Java function.
  • A package.json file or an --artifact flag pointing to a .js file will build the image for running a JavaScript function.
  • An --artifact flag pointing to a file with execute permissions will generate an image for running a Command function.

For example, say you have a directory containing just one file, wordcount.sh:

#!/bin/bash

tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

Make the file executable to use it as a command function.

chmod +x wordcount.sh

Call riff function create providing the name of the image. E.g. with your DockerHub repo ID.

riff function create wordcount \
  --local-path . \
  --artifact wordcount.sh \
  --image $DOCKER_ID/wordcount:v1

When the function is running:

riff service invoke wordcount --text -- \
  -d 'yo yo yo version 0.2.0' \
  -w '\w'

      1 0.2.0
      1 version
      3 yo
Extra!

Try running the following command to invoke your wordcount function on something a little more interesting.

curl -s https://www.constitution.org/usdeclar.txt  \
 | riff service invoke wordcount --text -- -d @-
Build from GitHub

For in-cluster builds using a GitHub repo, e.g. in a hosted riff environment, replace the --local-path . with --git-repo <url>.

riff function create wordcount \
  --git-repo https://github.com/projectriff-samples/command-wordcount \
  --artifact wordcount.sh \
  --image $DOCKER_ID/wordcount \
  --verbose

No more dev.local

Note that we have removed support for the special dev.local image name prefix for local builds. All image names need to be prefixed with a registry, and you'll need to configure your riff namespace with credentials to push images to that registry. A new --no-secret flag has been added to riff namespace init if your registry does not require authentication.

For more details please see the help for riff namespace init -h or refer to one of the Getting Started Guides.

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