A reference implementation of an Instance Plugin that can accept any configuration and writes the configuration to disk as provision. It is useful for testing and debugging.

Begin by building plugin binaries.

The plugin can be started without any arguments and will default to using unix socket in ~/.infrakit/plugins for communications with the CLI and other plugins:

$ INFRAKIT_INSTANCE_FILE_DIR=./test build/infrakit plugin start file
INFO[0000] Listening at: ~/.infrakit/plugins/file

The environment variable INFRAKIT_INSTANCE_FILE_DIR sets the directory used by this plugin instance. This starts the plugin starts up the plugin listening at socket file file.

You can give the another plugin instance a different name:

$ INFRAKIT_INSTANCE_FILE_DIR=./test2 build/infrakit plugn start file:another
INFO[0000] Listening at: ~/.infrakit/plugins/another

Be sure to verify that the plugin is discoverable.

Note that there should be two file instance plugins running now with different names (file, and another).

See the CLI Doc for details on accessing the instance plugin via CLI.