Iacker

NOTE: This project is a work in progress. DON'T USE IT TO PRODUCTION.

Iacker is a development framework to help cloud-native developers hugging with the infrastructure as a code's world.

The goal is to implement the open features for service providers.

• Open API: Expose Cloud Control and GraphQL API to the developer.
• Open Provider: Auto-generate provider code for Terraform, Pulumi, CDK, KubeVela, Crossplane, etc.
• Open Integration: Create libraries for Cobra, Apollo, and software development kits for various languages.

Introduction

Features

• Model-driven: Define the resource schema by CUE and unified specification.
• Developer-first: All workflows in code, collaborate with others with GitOps workflow.
• Generator-oriented: Build your own generator using the unified specification. Many popular IaC tools are provided.

Real-world example

We used it to create the Terraform Provider for Guance Cloud and other related services and tools.

Roadmap

All the features are described in the proposals folder. It is inspired by the GRFC Template used in Google. You can find the implementation status in the table below.

The proposal workflow is described in the Guance Cloud Proposal Governance Guidelines.

Architecture

Architecture defines the basic concepts and principles of Iacker architecture.

#	Title	How-tos
A001	API as Code in Iacker	How Iacker governance our API
A002	Resource Management Specification	How to define a new cloud resource
A003	Generator Framework	How to build developer tools by Iacker
A004	Resource Management Server	How to develop once, run as multiple protocols

Protocols

At Iacker, we use a unified resource management framework to expose various protocols for different use cases.

Protocols describe the protocols used in Iacker. Please follow the protocol specification (coming soon) to add a new protocol.

#	Title	How-tos
P001	Cloud Control API	Cloud Control API and the implementations

Developer Tools

Developer tools are the core of developer experience infrastructure (DXI). It provides tools to help developers build, test, and deploy their API callings.

#	Title	How-tos
T001	Resource Explorer	How to discover and interact with cloud resource
T002	Terraform Provider	How to build the engineering capability for X as Code world

Developer Guide

See the hack folder to understand how to build this project.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to Iacker. Please see the Contributing Guidelines for more information.