Contribution Overview
This section of the docs is for contributors to the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) project.
If you’re interested in enhancing our platform, developing on a specific service controller or just curious how ACK is architected, you’ve come to the right place.
Project Tenets (unless you know better ones)
We follow a set of tenets in building AWS Controllers for Kubernetes.
Collaborate in the Open: Our source code is open. Our development methodology is open. Our testing, release and documentation processes are open. We are a community-driven project that strives to meet our users where they are.
Generate Everything: We choose to generate as much of our code as possible. Generated code is easier to maintain and encourages consistency.
Focus on Kubernetes: We seek ways to make the Kubernetes user experience as simple and consistent as possible for managing AWS resources.
Run Anywhere: ACK service controllers can be installed on any Kubernetes cluster, regardless of whether a user chooses to use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
Minimize Service Dependencies: The only AWS services that ACK service controllers depend on should be IAM/STS and the specific AWS service that the controller integrates with. We do not take a dependency on any stateful resource-tracking service.
Read more about our project tenets and design principles.
Code Organization
ACK is a collection of source repositories containing a common runtime and type system, a code generator and individual service controllers that manage resources in a specific AWS API.
Learn more about how our source code repositories are organized.
API Inference
Read about how the code generator infers information about a Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) from an AWS API model file.
Code Generation
The code generation section gives you a bit of background on how we go about automating the code generation for controllers and supporting artifacts.
Setting up a Development Environemnt
In the setup section we walk you through setting up your local Git environment with the repo and how advise you on how we handle contributions.
Building an ACK Service Controller
After getting your development environment established, you will want to learn how to build an ACK service controller.
Testing an ACK Service Controller
Last but not least, in the testing section we show you how to test ACK locally.