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Lifecycle Hooks alpha
This page describes how to use the lifecycle hook framework to run code triggered by different events during the skaffold process lifecycle.
Overview
We identify three distinct phases in skaffold - build, sync and deploy. Skaffold can trigger a hook before or after executing each phase. There are two types of hooks that can be defined - host hooks and container hooks.
Host hooks
Host hooks are executed on the runner and can be defined for the following phases:
before-build and after-build
Build hooks are executed before and after each artifact is built.
If an artifact is not built, such as happens when the image was found in the Skaffold image cache, then the build hooks will not be executed.
To force the build hooks, run Skaffold with --cache-artifacts=false option.
Example: skaffold.yaml snippet
build:
artifacts:
- image: hooks-example
hooks:
before:
- command: ["sh", "-c", "./hook.sh"]
os: [darwin, linux]
- command: ["cmd.exe", "/C", "hook.bat"]
os: [windows]
after:
- command: ["sh", "-c", "./hook.sh"]
os: [darwin, linux]
- command: ["cmd.exe", "/C", "hook.bat"]
os: [windows]
This config snippet defines that hook.sh (for darwin or linux OS) or hook.bat (for windows OS) will be executed before and after each build for artifact hooks-example.
before-sync and after-sync
Example: skaffold.yaml snippet
build:
artifacts:
- image: hooks-example
sync:
auto: {}
hooks:
before:
- host:
command: ["sh", "-c", "./hook.sh"]
os: [darwin, linux]
- host:
command: ["cmd.exe", "/C", "hook.bat"]
os: [windows]
after:
- host:
command: ["sh", "-c", "./hook.sh"]
os: [darwin, linux]
- host:
command: ["cmd.exe", "/C", "hook.bat"]
os: [windows]
This config snippet defines that hook.sh (for darwin or linux OS) or hook.bat (for windows OS) will be executed before and after each file sync operation for artifact hooks-example.
before-deploy and after-deploy
Example: skaffold.yaml snippet
deploy:
kubectl:
manifests:
- deployment.yaml
hooks:
before:
- host:
command: ["sh", "-c", "echo pre-deploy host hook running on $(hostname)!"]
os: [darwin, linux]
after:
- host:
command: ["sh", "-c", "echo post-deploy host hook running on $(hostname)!"]
This config snippet defines a simple echo command to run before and after each kubectl deploy.
Environment variables
The following environment variables will be available for the corresponding phase host hooks, that can be resolved in both inline commands or scripts.
| Environment variable | Description | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| $SKAFFOLD_IMAGE | The fully qualified image name. For example, “gcr.io/image1:tag” | Build, Sync |
| $SKAFFOLD_PUSH_IMAGE | Set to true if the image in $IMAGE is expected to exist in a remote registry. Set to false if the image is expected to exist locally. | Build |
| $SKAFFOLD_IMAGE_REPO | The image repo. For example, “gcr.io/image1” | Build |
| $SKAFFOLD_IMAGE_TAG | The image tag. For example, “tag” | Build |
| $SKAFFOLD_BUILD_CONTEXT | An absolute path to the directory this artifact is meant to be built from. Specified by artifact context in the skaffold.yaml. | Build |
| $SKAFFOLD_FILES_ADDED_OR_MODIFIED | Semi-colon delimited list of absolute path to all files synced or to be synced in current dev loop that have been added or modified | Sync |
| $SKAFFOLD_FILES_DELETED | Semi-colon delimited list of absolute path to all files synced or to be synced in current dev loop that have been deleted | Sync |
| $SKAFFOLD_RUN_ID | Run specific UUID label for deployed or to be deployed resources | Deploy |
| $SKAFFOLD_DEFAULT_REPO | The resolved default repository | All |
| $SKAFFOLD_RPC_PORT | TCP port to expose event API | All |
| $SKAFFOLD_HTTP_PORT | TCP port to expose event REST API over HTTP | All |
| $SKAFFOLD_KUBE_CONTEXT | The resolved Kubernetes context | Sync, Deploy |
| $SKAFFOLD_MULTI_LEVEL_REPO | The multi-level support of the repository | All |
| $SKAFFOLD_NAMESPACES | Comma separated list of Kubernetes namespaces | Sync, Deploy |
| $SKAFFOLD_WORK_DIR | The workspace root directory | All |
| Local environment variables | The current state of the local environment (e.g. $HOST, $PATH). Determined by the golang os.Environ function. | All |
Container hooks
Container hooks are executed on a target container and can be defined on the following phases:
before-sync and after-sync
Example: skaffold.yaml snippet
build:
artifacts:
- image: hooks-example
sync:
auto: {}
hooks:
before:
- container:
command: ["sh", "-c", "echo before sync hook"]
after:
- container:
command: ["sh", "-c", "echo after sync hook"]
This config snippet defines a command to run inside the container corresponding to the artifact hooks-example image, before and after each file sync operation.
before-deploy and after-deploy
Example: skaffold.yaml snippet
deploy:
kubectl:
manifests:
- deployment.yaml
hooks:
before:
- container:
# this will only run when there's a matching container from a previous deploy iteration like in `skaffold dev`
command: ["sh", "-c", "echo pre-deploy container hook running on $(hostname)!"]
containerName: hooks-example*
podName: hooks-example-deployment*
after:
- container:
command: ["sh", "-c", "echo post-deploy container hook running on $(hostname)!"]
containerName: hooks-example* # use a glob pattern to prefix-match the container name and pod name for deployments, stateful-sets, etc.
podName: hooks-example-deployment*
This config snippet defines a simple echo command to run inside the containers that match podName and containerName, before and after each kubectl deploy. The after container commands are only run after the deployment status checks on the deployment are complete. Also, unlike the sync container hooks, skaffold cannot determine the target container from just the config definition, and needs the podName and containerName.