Integrating with CI/CD tools

Akka development projects can be integrated into a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) process using the Akka CLI. To use the Akka CLI in your CI/CD workflow, you’ll need a service token. A service token is a token tied to a single project, that allows authenticating and performing actions on that project. Service tokens have the following permissions on the project they are created for:

View project

✅

Admin project

❌

View/deploy/update services

✅

Delete services

❌

Manage routes

✅

Manage secrets

✅

Backoffice functions

❌

Create a service token

You will need an Akka authentication token to set up any CI/CD process. To create the service token, run the command below:

akka project token create --description "My CI/CD system"

The description can be anything, but you should choose a description that will allow you to easily identify that token and what its purpose is.

The output will look similar to:

Token created: cst4.48dcc76ecd5f8a7786267714875c7037395f46aa4206bae1712d89fff37ad123

Copy and paste the token to a safe location. You will not be able to view the token again.

A token may be restricted to certain scopes with the --scopes flag. The available scopes are all, container_registry, execution, and projects.

Configure akka in a CI/CD process

The basic steps to configure the Akka CLI to run in your CI/CD environment are:

  • Configure the AKKA_TOKEN and AKKA_PROJECT environment variables in your CI/CD environment.

  • Install the Akka CLI

The mechanism for configuring the environment variables will be specific to your CI/CD environment. Most cloud based CI/CD services have a mechanism for configuring secrets which get passed by environment variable.

To install the Akka CLI in your CI/CD environment, configure the environment to run the following command using curl:

curl -sL https://doc.akka.io/install-cli.sh | bash

Managing service tokens

You can view a list of all the service tokens for a project using the akka project tokens list command:

$ akka project tokens list
ID                                     DESCRIPTION   SCOPES   CREATED
308147ea-9b04-47e4-a308-dc2b4aab0c7d   My token      [all]    1h0m

To revoke a token, use the akka project token revoke command, passing the ID of the token you want to revoke:

$ akka project token revoke 308147ea-9b04-47e4-a308-dc2b4aab0c7d
Token revoked