Template for spin plugin

[jpflueger]

Is there a template if I wanted to write my own spin plugin? Ideally instead of cloning this repo and running createManifest.sh I would like to be able to spin new plugin my-plugin to create a new plugin.

[kate-goldenring]

@itowlson was working on a plugin pluginify that would take a binary and produce a manifest for it

[itowlson]

Haha, I was thinking of creating a plugin template (tentatively in the pluginify repo so I could have it use spin-pluginify.toml), but I wanted to figure out GitHub actions integration first!

@jpflueger The templates system wouldn't maintain the manifest for you - you'd still need to run a tool or script to regenerate the tar file and manifest. All the templates system would do is scaffold the source code for you. But if that would be useful then it would be pretty easy to put one together (famous last words).

[rajatjindal]

we can automate the regeneration part similar to what is done for kubectl plugins
using https://github.com/rajatjindal/krew-release-bot

[itowlson]

@rajatjindal I did a GH action to auto pluginify and release the SQS trigger. It should be fairly boilerplatey. If we made an official version of pluginify then we could wrap it in an official action...?! Though not sure whether/how to automate PRing it to the official catalogue...