Provide compiled binaries

[Nyoroon]

Hello!

It would be very useful to have pre-compiled binaries for those who deploy it on bare-metal and VM.
Maybe build it with travis and push to github releases?

[bnfinet]

Thanks for the suggestion. Its a good idea.

To offer a static binary as a release we'd need to include the additional static files which get served by the webapp.

The go generate method outlined here seems like a viable path..
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17796043/how-to-embed-files-into-golang-binaries

And of course storing the MD5 checksum

@halkeye setup travis for Vouch Proxy so he may have some thoughts as well.

@Nyoroon is this something you'd care to work on?

[rlex]

Maybe just pack static files in same .tar.gz/.zip/whatever? That's gonna be enough for configuration management systems.

[halkeye]

I don't remember this issue at all. Go releaser is pretty good for uploading files to the releases tab, but yea the static templates that are external certainly make things more complicated

Goreleaser should be able to do it

[rlex]

Definitely will be better than just source and docker images, i think.

Plus might be easier to customize. Looking at git history, templates are pretty stable and rarely changed?

[bnfinet]

This action may be the mechanism to publish the binaries with each release. Still need to bundle the other files.
https://github.com/skx/github-action-publish-binaries

[hbjydev]

@bnfinet You potentially could distribute the static assets separately and require the administrator to define the location to those assets?

i.e. vouch-proxy -static.path=/opt/vouch-proxy/static/ or similar

[bnfinet]

@hbjydev this issue is showing it's age. As of v0.29.0 all static assets are embedded in the binary..
https://github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v0290

[hbjydev]

@hbjydev this issue is showing it's age. As of v0.29.0 all static assets are embedded in the binary..

https://github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v0290

Ah, sorry about that. I was looking at bare metal installation stuff and stumbled on this randomly so I didn't see the changelog

[nuclon]

@hbjydev this issue is showing it's age. As of v0.29.0 all static assets are embedded in the binary.. https://github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v0290

So now it is possible to publish binaries with each release, right?
Any plans on implementing?

[halkeye]

@bnfinet is the only one that can do releases, and he hasn't been online in a while,no activity in github, twitter hasn't been updated since 2020, and website is now gone. My guess is something happened. Nm, I see a comment from him a few months ago :)

I would recommend if you want the feature implemented, you fork and do it. Maybe @aaronpk (as a member of core) might have merging and releasing rights. But i'd still think project needs to find a new home.

[bnfinet]

:) yeah I'm around, I'm just extremely choosey at the moment

Sorry for some cobwebs here. I do expect to get back to VP once it starts raining in earnest. Until then I have to prioritize other life goals.

[fukawi2]

Looks like this could be automated fairly simply with GitHub Actions: https://dev.to/koddr/github-action-for-release-your-go-projects-as-fast-and-easily-as-possible-20a2

Would you be interested in a PR implementing this @bnfinet?