Dear all,
As many of you know, I'm a DevOps Engineer by trade (whatever that
means). I use NetBeans daily, however beside supporting Text editing,
terminal and favorites to organize my work. Text editing is mostly
Terraform and sometimes YAML.
One day, I spent good time, when I edited code in a long comment block,
trying to troubleshoot why my changes were not applied. That would be
obvious if I had basic syntax highlight for Terraform.
I wanted to create a syntax highlight module for Terraform. I checked
the available HCL grammars written in Java, I was not convinced enough.
That lead to ANTLR support in NB16.
So, I have an ambitious plan creating a set of plugins which actually
would help my work:
- Support for Helm Charts: That would mean Helm Charts would open as
NetBeans Projects, main goal would be providing code completion in the
Yaml templates.
- Editor Support for Terraform files: syntax highlight, code templates
- Terraform Project Support: Terraform files to be parsed, and provide
code completion on the parsed data.
- Go Lang Support: Well, this is not to express my love for GoLang (as
there are none of that), but Terraform resource/datasource metadata can
be extracted from the original source code. I just need a parser.
What I have so far:
- Initial code for Go. (ANTLR based Lexer/Parser, basic Syntax Highlight)
- Initial code for Terraform (ANTLR based Lexer/Parser, basic Syntax
Highlight, Code Templates)
- Some code for Helm project support, that does not provide anything
useful in its current state.
- A General DevOps project type, I plan to use for Helm and Terraform
These kind of modules do not fit into our existing clusters, so I'd
propose to create a devops cluster.
I'm not sure what should be the development model for this, as there
would be half baked modules for a while, so going right into master may
not be feasible as some implementations would be arching over a few NB
releases. Though I wish to file multiple PR-s gradually, not just one
big bang.
I'm thinking about the following options:
- Create a devops cluster in a devops branch in the main repo, create
PR-s agains that branch, merge to master when it's solid.
- Create a devops cluster in master branch, create PR-s as usual, do
not include/mark devops cluster as experimental in the binaries.
Opinions?
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