Habitat

Habitat is an application automation framework that allows you to build applications that have automation built-in. This provides modern applications that:

Provide repeatable builds
Run from single, immutable assets
Allow for runtime configuration for multiple deployment scenarios
Are agnostic to operating environment (works the same on bare metal, virtualization, containers, PaaS)
Provide idempotent behavior (the same inputs to the same asset provide the same outcome)
Provide convergent behavior (each service makes progress towards the correct behavior in the face of failure)
Expose promises to those who rely on it
Provide a low barrier to entry
Are language agnostic

To learn more about Habitat, please visit the Habitat website.

The remainder of this README focuses on developers who want to modify the source code of Habitat.

Working on Habitat

Rules for working on Habitat

The principle of least abstraction. When possible, we use the tooling that is closest to the native tooling for the platform, and provide as little abstraction as necessary. When we do choose an abstraction, we choose one - and we make it the one that is most user-serviceable.
Keep it light. The runtime component of Habitat is used as a process supervisor - it needs to stay lean. No run-times.
Convention over configuration, with reasonable defaults. Where possible, we remove the need to configure things by having a convention cover it. When we do need to configure things, we set reasonable defaults.
Call things what they are.
It has to feel great to the end user. If it doesn't feel great, it's a bug.
Write documentation as you go. Internal and external.

Useful reference material

Setup On Mac OS X

Install Docker Toolbox (you'll need at least Docker 1.9 and docker-machine 0.5. Both are included in Docker Toolbox)
Install VMWare Fusion
Delete the default docker-machine image: docker-machine rm default
Create a new one with vmware fusion: docker-machine create -d vmwarefusion --vmwarefusion-memory-size 4096 --vmwarefusion-cpu-count 2 --vmwarefusion-disk-size 40960 default. Feel free to increase the number of CPUs, RAM, or Disk space as needed. This determines how fast you can compile the project and build software. (Adam uses 4 CPUs, 8GB of RAM)
Consider adding eval "$(docker-machine env default)" to your shell initialization
Checkout the source by running git clone git@github.com:habitat-sh/habitat.git; cd habitat
Run make
(Optional) Run make test if you want to run the tests. This will take a while.

Everything should come up green. Congratulations - you have a working Habitat development environment.

Note: The Makefile targets are documented. Run make help to show the output. Habitat requires perl.

Optional: This project compiles and runs inside Docker containers so while installing the Rust language isn't strictly necessary, you might want a local copy of Rust on your workstation (some editors' language support require an installed version). To install stable Rust, run: curl -sSf https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup.sh | sh. Additionally, the project maintainers use rustfmt for code formatting. If you are submitting changes, please ensure that your work has been run through rustfmt. An easy way to install it (assuming you have Rust installed as above), is to run cargo install rustfmt and adding $HOME/.cargo/bin to your PATH.

Setup on native Linux

Install Docker Note: You may need to logout and then login again after this step
Install Docker Compose
Checkout the source by running git clone git@github.com:habitat-sh/habitat.git; cd habitat
Run make
Run make test

Everything should come up green. Congratulations - you have a working Habitat development environment.

Note: The Makefile targets are documented. Run make help to show the output. Habitat requires perl.

Web Application

The Habitat Builder web application is in the components/builder-web directory. See its README for more information.

Documentation

Habitat's website and documentation is generated using Middleman and is located in the www directory of the Habitat source code. To work on the documentation, you will need to have a working Ruby installation and Bundler. We recommend Ruby 2.3.1 or greater.

To install Middleman, follow these instructions:

Change to the www directory and type:

bundle install --path=vendor
To build the documentation, either before or after you make your change, change to the www directory and type:

bundle exec middleman build
The documentation is built into the source directory. You can instruct Middleman to serve the site by typing:

bundle exec middleman serve
Middleman will start a small webserver on your computer and indicate what URL you should load in your browser to preview it.

== View your site at "http://mylaptop.example.com:4567", "http://192.168.1.101:4567"
You can continue to make changes to the documentation files and Middleman will reload them live.
Press Ctrl-C to terminate the webserver when you are finished working with Middleman.

Documentation for Rust Crates

The Rust crates also have their own internal developer documentation. From the root of the project, type make docs to build the internal Rust documentation.

Run make serve-docs to run a small web server that exposes the documentation on port 9633. You can then read the docs at http://<DOCKER_HOST>:9633/ (with working JavaScript-based search).

Writing new features

Start a new feature branch
Open a terminal and run make shell
Change directory to a component cd components/x
Build with cargo build or cargo test
You can use cargo run -- foobar to pass options to the built binary
Sign and commit your change
Push your feature branch to GitHub, and create a Pull Request

Signing Your Commits

This project utilizes a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) to ensure that each commit was written by the author or that the author has the appropriate rights necessary to contribute the change. The project utilizes Developer Certificate of Origin, Version 1.1

Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1

Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
660 York Street, Suite 102,
San Francisco, CA 94110 USA

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.


Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1

By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:

(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
    have the right to submit it under the open source license
    indicated in the file; or

(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
    of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
    license and I have the right under that license to submit that
    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
    in the file; or

(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
    it.

(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
    this project or the open source license(s) involved.

Each commit must include a DCO which looks like this

Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@email.com>

The project requires that the name used is your real name. Neither anonymous contributors nor those utilizing pseudonyms will be accepted.

Git makes it easy to add this line to your commit messages. Make sure the user.name and user.email are set in your git configs. Use -s or --signoff to add the Signed-off-by line to the end of the commit message.

Pull Request Review and Merge Automation

Habitat uses several bots to automate the review and merging of pull requests. Messages to and from the bots are brokered via the account @thesentinels. First, we use Facebook's mention bot to identify potential reviewers for a pull request based on the blame information in the relevant diff. @thesentinels can also receive incoming commands from reviewers to approve PRs. These commands are routed to a homu bot that will automatically merge a PR when sufficient reviewers have provided a +1 (or r+ in homu terminology).

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.