Using the Makefile
The ska-low-csp repository relies on make to automate most development tasks like building and linting source code, running tests and deployments.
The make targets are defined in the Makefile. This file includes targets from ska-cicd-makefile, refer to their README for more information on how this works.
Variables
The Makefile contains default values for a lot of variables, which can be overridden in two ways.
Overriding from the command line
To override a variable from the command line, use the following format:
make <target> VARIABLE=value
For example, this command installs the Helm chart in Kubernetes, but overrides the Kubernetes namespace to testing123:
make k8s-install-chart KUBE_NAMESPACE=testing123
Overriding from PrivateRules.mak
The Makefile is configured to include a file called PrivateRules.mak, which is ignored by Git and can therefore contain user-specific overrides.
This is useful for variables that you would otherwise have to override manually each time you run a make command.
For example, to override the KUBE_NAMESPACE variable to change the default namespace used to install the Helm chart:
KUBE_NAMESPACE = testing123