compose/BUILDING.md

Prerequisites

• Windows:
  • Docker Desktop
  • make
• macOS:
  • Docker Desktop
  • make
• Linux:
  • Docker 20.10 or later
  • make

Building the CLI

Once you have the prerequisites installed, you can build the CLI using:

make

This will output a docker-compose CLI plugin for your host machine in ./bin/build.

You can statically cross compile the CLI for Windows, macOS, and Linux using the cross target.

Unit tests

To run all of the unit tests, run:

make test

If you need to update a golden file simply do go test ./... -test.update-golden.

End-to-end tests

To run e2e tests, the Compose CLI binary needs to be built. All the commands to run e2e tests propose a version with the prefix build-and-e2e to first build the CLI before executing tests.

Note that this requires a local Docker Engine to be running.

Whole end-to-end tests suite

To execute both CLI and standalone e2e tests, run :

make e2e

Or if you need to build the CLI, run:

make build-and-e2e

Plugin end-to-end tests suite

To execute CLI plugin e2e tests, run :

make e2e-compose

Or if you need to build the CLI, run:

make build-and-e2e-compose

Standalone end-to-end tests suite

To execute the standalone CLI e2e tests, run :

make e2e-compose-standalone

Or if you need to build the CLI, run:

make build-and-e2e-compose-standalone

Releases

To create a new release:

• Check that the CI is green on the main branch for the commit you want to release
• Run the release GitHub Actions workflow with a tag of form vx.y.z following existing tags.

This will automatically create a new tag, release and make binaries for Windows, macOS, and Linux available for download on the releases page.