Publishing a Plugin to the Hub

With the announcement of CloudQuery Hub, we are excited to see the community contribute plugins to the Hub. This guide will walk you through the process of publishing a plugin to the Hub.

Prerequisites

• You have created a CloudQuery Cloud (opens in a new tab) account and completed the onboarding process to create a team
• You have created the plugin you'd like to publish on https://cloud.cloudquery.io/ (opens in a new tab) under the relevant team
• You have the CloudQuery CLI installed (version >= v3.27.1)
• The plugin you'd like to publish is written in Go, and uses an SDK version >= v4.17.1
• The plugin you'd like to publish is initialized using the plugin's name, team and kind. See example here (opens in a new tab)
• You are authenticated to CloudQuery Cloud (opens in a new tab) using the cloudquery login command

Publishing a Plugin

1. (Optional, recommended) In the root directory of your plugin repository run git tag v1.0.0 to tag the version you're about to publish (replace v1.0.0 with the version you'd like to publish)
2. (Optional, recommended) Run git push origin v1.0.0 to push the tag
3. Run go run main.go package --docs-dir docs -m 'feat: Initial release' v1.0.0 . to package the plugin. v1.0.0 should match the tag you created in step 1. The -m specifies the changelog message that will be used in the release notes and it supports markdown. See example here (opens in a new tab). docs should be a directory containing markdown files that serve as documentation for the plugin. Read more about the documentation format here.
4. Run cloudquery plugin publish to publish a draft version of the plugin. The version will show up under the versions tab of your plugin in https://cloud.cloudquery.io (opens in a new tab). As long as the version is in draft it's mutable and you can re-package the plugin and publish it again
5. Once you're ready run cloudquery plugin publish -f to publish a non draft version of the plugin. This version will be immutable and will show up in https://hub.cloudquery.io/ (opens in a new tab). Allow up to 1 hour for the Hub to reflect the changes

Documentation Format

• The only documentation format supported at the moment is markdown, and the cloudquery publish command will only upload markdown files with the .md extension
• You can have multiple markdown files as documentation. The files will be concatenated in alphabetical order, and if one of the files is named overview.md it will show up first
• The markdown filename will be title cased when display in the Hub. For example overview.md will be displayed as Overview
• HTML tags are not supported in the markdown files and will be ignored
• Relative assets (e.g. ./assets/logo.png) are not supported. We recommend using absolute URLs for assets e.g. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<owner>/<repo>/main/assets/logo.png in case you have the assets on GitHub