Publishing Ops
After you are done creating, running and building your Op, you will need to publish it if you want to run it in Slack.
Publishing is the act of versioning an Op and enabling it to be run remotely. Each time you publish an Op, it will be on a new semantic version of it.
An Remote Op is an Op that is being run on our servers, sending the outputs and retrieving the inputs directly from the agent that is running it. This agent can be another user of your team; an server that you are running a routine from time to time; your CI/CD pipeline or even an Slack user running it.
This Op can also be available publicly on our registry, but you can make then private, thus only making it to other team members. You can also provide a new Readme and changelogs to each version.
How to publish an Op
By default, your op will be published to your current team's registry. You can be signed in to only one team at a time. To verify your current team you are on, run this command:
ops whoami
Create a Team
When you install the Ops CLI, your personal Team will be created. If you’re not sharing your Op, you can skip this step. However, if you are developing an Op to share with one or many groups, you can quickly create a new Team with the ops team:create command.
When you run this command, you’ll be asked to provide a team name. See the documentation for more information about managing Teams.
ops team:create
Create a new Op
To begin developing a new Op, run the ops init command. Init will create a starter project locally so you can begin developing right away.
You’ll also be asked for the name of your new Op, a short description, and which version number you would like to assign to your Op.
ops init
After you have run the init command, you can look through the sample project code, or start adding your own code.
Build Your Op
Build your Op for running or testing with the ops build command. The Build command allows you to create a local Op image and test it. If you haven’t published your Op, building a local image is the only way for you to run it.
ops build [PATH]
ops build .
Run Your New Op
Run an Op from your team list or the Ops registry. When you use the ops run command, the Ops CLI will check for a local version. If there is no local image, it will check your team and the public team for a published version. If nothing is found, Run will use the path to the YAML file you’ve supplied to build the image locally and then execute the Op.
ops run path/opname
ops run .
To run a public Op that hasn't been added to your team:
ops run @teamname/opname
You can optionally supply the -b (or --build) argument to build the Op before running it.
ops run . --build
Publish Your Op
To share your work, you can publish an Op to the team you are currently on with the ops publish command. When you publish, you’ll be able to access your Op from anywhere you have the CLI installed. You can publish multiple versions of your Op to different teams.
ops publish path/opName
As part of the publishing process, you’ll be asked for a short change log description of what is in the new version.
For a public Op, you’ll need to edit the YAML file. In ops.yml, you’ll find a field called Public. This field is False by default, but you can publish an Op publicly by setting this field to True.
Note: before publishing a new version of your Op, you will need to update the Name field in ops.yml to include the new version.
Your team registry will be published to once your image uploads successfully, you'll now find it belongs to your remote team ops:
ops search
Add an Op to Another Team
When you run ops add, you are adding an Op from another team (e.g., your default personal Team) as a favourite under your current team. When you use ops add with a public Op, you will also see it in the list of your team's ops.
ops add opname
OPNAME should be in the format: @teamname/opName:versionName
You can check the Ops that have been added to your Team by running ops list. To remove an Op from your team, refer to the ops remove documentation.
🚀 What's next?
- Learn how to publish, share and run your Op on Slack via our Build an Op Tutorial
- Explore ours SDKs to learn how to create Ops with the different languages we support