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Creating a Bindle for an Actor

Currently, there is no tooling outside of the bindle CLI for creating a bindle for your actor. This will be added to wash in the future as we solidify our Bindle support. These instructions show how to manually assemble a bindle for an actor.

Prerequisites​

Before doing these steps, you'll need to install the bindle CLI by downloading it from the releases page.

After downloading bindle, set the BINDLE_URL environment variable to the bindle server of your choosing:

$ export BINDLE_URL=http://localhost:8080/v1

Creating your Invoice​

First off, you'll need to create an invoice. Create a new file called invoice.toml and put the following content in it, switching out name and version with the values for your specific project as well as updating the description and authors field:

bindleVersion = "1.0.0"

[bindle]
name = "wasmcloud.dev/echo"
version = "0.3.2"
description = "A wasmCloud maintained echo actor for testing and tire kicking"
authors = ["The wasmCloud Team"]

[annotations]
"wasmcloud.dev/type" = "actor"

For more information on Bindle naming and IDs, see the relevant information in the Bindle docs. Currently, we do not actually use the wasmcloud.dev/type annotation, but we likely will in the future.

Adding the actor parcel​

After building your signed actor, you can generate a label for it by running:

$ bindle generate-label build/echo_s.wasm
sha256 = '21c1f194b124db7c2f0aebfba6df557f9625e525ff231b5a295e1187a79c5e5f'
mediaType = 'application/wasm'
name = 'echo_s.wasm'
size = 1842409

Once you have this label, you can add it as a separate object of the parcel array (beneath the already existing content in invoice.toml) like so:

[[parcel]]
[parcel.label]
sha256 = '21c1f194b124db7c2f0aebfba6df557f9625e525ff231b5a295e1187a79c5e5f'
mediaType = 'application/wasm'
name = 'echo.wasm'
size = 1842409

Pushing to the server​

Once you have finished your invoice, you can push everything to the server. It is highly recommended that for real use cases (basically if you are doing anything outside of simple testing) that you sign the invoice using bindle sign. More information on signing can be found in the Bindle docs.

The first thing you'll need to push is your invoice:

$ bindle push-invoice invoice.toml
Invoice wasmcloud.dev/echo/0.3.2 created

You'll want to copy the bindle ID (wasmcloud.dev/echo/0.3.2) from above to use in the next command to push the actor:

$ bindle push-file wasmcloud.dev/echo/0.3.2 build/echo_s.wasm

Whew! You made it!

A full example​

Below is a full invoice example converted from wasmcloud.azurecr.io/echo:0.3.2 for reference:

bindleVersion = "1.0.0"

[bindle]
name = "wasmcloud.dev/echo"
version = "0.3.2"
description = "A wasmCloud maintained echo actor for testing and tire kicking"
authors = ["The wasmCloud Team"]

[annotations]
"wasmcloud.dev/type" = "actor"

[[parcel]]
[parcel.label]
sha256 = '21c1f194b124db7c2f0aebfba6df557f9625e525ff231b5a295e1187a79c5e5f'
mediaType = 'application/wasm'
name = 'echo.wasm'
size = 1842409