Hashicorp Waypoint

1

Hey. I’m just curious what do you Fly.io guys think about Hashicorp Waypoint:
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-waypoint
Any plans to support it maybe?

2 Likes
2

We think it’s pretty great. We’ve been wanting something like Terraform for containers, seems like it checks that box.

We’ll probably build a Fly plugin for it, we’re certainly going to see what it takes.

4 Likes
3

Any updates on this? I am exploring having having a waypoint server as as service on fly-io. fly-io is perfect for such a use-case. But deploying it with the waypoint command would require access to the fly-io API and I don’t see it documented anywhere. I basically would love to do something like this:

 waypoint install -platform=fly-io -accept-tos
1 Like
4

We haven’t had time to do anything with it! The Fly API is capable, though, so it’s totally doable. You can check it out at https://api.fly.io/graphql.

Our CLI uses the API for everything, so if you need query examples you can check out the source code: https://github.com/superfly/flyctl

1 Like
5

Cool, I didn’t know you where using graphql. How is that working out for you? I am making an assumption that you are using Go for this API? I want to know how the community support is for Go. Any good libraries?

6

GraphQL is pretty good for our own tools.

Go doesn’t have the best GraphQL libraries, we end up doing things like this … which is readable but a little tedious to add on to: https://github.com/superfly/flyctl/blob/master/api/resource_deploy.go#L3-L34

7

Hey, I’m wondering if anything has been started regarding this? As @rugwiro mentioned, I think this is a great use-case. I have been looking into it and would be willing to give it a shot, but I don’t want to duplicate any internal or existing community efforts.

8

Hey @jdpleiness! I’ve been tinkering with a waypoint plugin using our new Machines API but it’s not something I have dedicated time for at the moment. If you get started on one, please do let us know and we’ll try and help with any questions/issues.

9

@JP_Phillips, that sounds great! Thanks for the docs link to get started as well.

1 Like