Goreleaser

Introduction

goreleaser is the tool we use to build and distribute builds of observe-agent. It can target multiple OS and architecture outputs and also bundle files into packages. It can also publish these packages to various repos including apt repos and brew. Generally for actual releases we should be using the Github Action which runs whenever we push a new tag. However, it can be useful to have goreleaser installed locally so that you can generate builds to test on various test environments.

Installation

First, install goreleaser pro. On MacOS the command is

brew install goreleaser/tap/goreleaser-pro

Then, set the following secrets:

• GORELEASER_KEY
• GITHUB_TOKEN
• FURY_TOKEN

Usage

Once goreleaser is installed you can generate local snapshot builds with the following command

goreleaser release --prepare --clean --snapshot