Splunk app packager

The Splunk app packager runs as a cli tool to package your Splunk app, validate the app, and push it to your Splunk instance.

Install splunk-app-packager

$ pip install splunk-app-packager

Run splunk-app-packager

Set environment variables

$ export SPLUNK_USER=<splunk.com user account>
$ export SPLUNK_PASSWORD=<splunk.com user password>
$ export SPLUNK_ACS_TOKEN=<splunkcloud acs token>
$ export SPLUNK_ACS_STACK=<splunkcloud acs stack name>

Create a config.toml file

Create a package_config section within your config.toml file and set the app name and splunk_user name as shown below:

[package_config]
app = "NAME"
environment = ""
version = ""
splunk_user = "SPLUNK_APP_ACCOUNT"

splunk_app_packager will look for a config.toml file in your current working directory, otherwise you can use the --config-path option to specify it's name and location.

CLI arguments

$ sap --help
Usage: splunk_app_packager [OPTIONS] APP_PACKAGE

Options:
  --splunkuser TEXT      The splunk.com username. Can also be set via
                         SPLUNK_USER environment variable  [required]
  --splunkpassword TEXT  The splunk.com password. Can also be set via
                         SPLUNK_PASSWORD environment variable  [required]
  --justvalidate         Provied a package .tag.gz instead of a directory and
                         validate it.
  --prod                 Build a PRODUCTION package
  --nodeploy             Do NOT do the Deploy leg, just validate
  --outfile TEXT         Provied a package .tag.gz instead of a directory and
                         validate it.
  --acs-stack TEXT       The name of the ACS stack. Can also be set via
                         SPLUNK_ACS_STACK environment variable.
  --acs-token TEXT       A bearer token for Splunk ACS. Can also be set via
                         SPLUNK_ACS_TOKEN environment variable.
  --config-path TEXT     A path to the config.toml file.  [required]
  --help                 Show this message and exit.

Example usage

$ sap /path/to/app/folder  --prod

Use as GitHub Action

Example production deployment

name: Production Deployment 

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
    paths:
      - APP_NAME/**
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  deploy:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - uses: dfe-digital/[email protected]
        with:
          app_package_path: 'APP_NAME'
          splunk_username: ${{ secrets.SPLUNK_USERNAME }}
          splunk_password: ${{ secrets.SPLUNK_PASSWORD }}
          splunk_acs_token: ${{ secrets.SPLUNK_ACS_TOKEN }}
          splunk_acs_stack: ${{ secrets.SPLUNK_ACS_STACK }}

Example with a different path for config.toml

name: Production Deployment 

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
    paths:
      - APP_NAME/**
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  deploy:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - uses: dfe-digital/[email protected]
        with:
          app_package_path: 'APP_NAME'
          splunk_username: ${{ secrets.SPLUNK_USERNAME }}
          splunk_password: ${{ secrets.SPLUNK_PASSWORD }}
          splunk_acs_token: ${{ secrets.SPLUNK_ACS_TOKEN }}
          splunk_acs_stack: ${{ secrets.SPLUNK_ACS_STACK }}
          config_toml_path: 'conf/config.toml' 

Contributing

Refer to our contributing guidelines if you'd like to raise a bug or pull request.