Publish your plugin to RubyGems.org
Logstash uses RubyGems.org as its repository for all plugin artifacts. After you have developed your new plugin, you can make it available to Logstash users by publishing it to RubyGems.org.
Logstash and all its plugins are licensed under Apache License, version 2 ("ALv2"). If you make your plugin publicly available via RubyGems.org, please make sure to have this line in your gemspec:
s.licenses = ['Apache License (2.0)']
You’ll need an account on RubyGems.org
After creating an account, obtain an API key from RubyGems.org. By default, RubyGems uses the file ~/.gem/credentials to store your API key. These credentials will be used to publish the gem. Replace username and password with the credentials you created at RubyGems.org:
curl -u username:password https://rubygems.org/api/v1/api_key.yaml > ~/.gem/credentials
chmod 0600 ~/.gem/credentials
Before proceeding, make sure you have the right version in your gemspec file and commit your changes.
s.version = '0.1.0'
To publish version 0.1.0 of your new logstash gem:
bundle install
bundle exec rake vendor
bundle exec rspec
bundle exec rake publish_gem
Execute rake publish_gem:
- Reads the version from the gemspec file (
s.version = '0.1.0') - Checks in your local repository if a tag exists for that version. If the tag already exists, it aborts the process. Otherwise, it creates a new version tag in your local repository.
- Builds the gem
- Publishes the gem to RubyGems.org
That’s it! Your plugin is published! Logstash users can now install your plugin by running:
bin/plugin install logstash-output-mypluginname
Where <plugintype> is input, output, filter, or codec, and <mypluginname> is the name of your new plugin.