splunkdev-grunt

Grunt tasks for building Splunk applications.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install splunkdev-grunt --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('splunkdev-grunt');

List of tasks

Grunt "splunk-services" task

This task allow you to manipulate Splunk services.

Requirements

This task expects configuration:

grunt.config.init({
  splunk: {
    splunkHome: '/path/to/Splunk/home/folder',
    splunkd: {
      username: 'admin',
      password: 'splunkd_password',
      scheme: 'https',
      host: 'localhost',
      port: '8089',
      version: '6.0'
    }
  }
});

If you have splunk-cli installed - you can run splunk-cli config to save configuration for specific Splunk instance and load it with next code snipped:

grunt.config.init({
  splunk: require('splunkdev-grunt/lib/configuration').get()
});

Available task options

• splunk-services:reload-apps - reload application configurations
• splunk-services:*:start - start all Splunk services
• splunk-services:*:stop - stop all Splunk services
• splunk-services:*:restart - restart all Splunk services
• splunk-services:splunkweb:start - start splunkweb service
• splunk-services:splunkweb:stop - stop splunkweb service
• splunk-services:splunkweb:restart - restart splunkweb service
• splunk-services:splunkd:start - start splunkd service
• splunk-services:splunkd:stop - stop splunkd service
• splunk-services:splunkd:restart - restart splunkd service

Grunt "splunk-watch" task

Task watches for changes under Splunk home folder and do required steps, like call livereload or reload Splunk app configurations or restart required Splunk services.

Requirements

This task depends on "splunk-contrib-watch" task.

Available task options

• splunk-watch:apps:* - watch for all Splunk applications
• splunk-watch:apps:[appname] - watch for specific application [appname]
• splunk-watch:splunk - watch for changes in Splunk (core components)
• splunk-watch:* - watch for all applications and core components

Notes

Implementation of task "splunk-watch" configure and launch grunt task "grunt-contrib-watch". If you need to use "grunt-contrib-watch" at the same time as you use "splunk-watch" - you will need to use lib/watchConfig module and just launch "watch" task from "grunt-contrib-watch". For example:

var splunkWatchConfig = require('splunkdev-grunt/lib/watchConfig');

var watchConfig = { /* ... your watch configuration ... */ };
// If you need to watch for application changes
splunkWatchConfig.watchForApp(watchConfig, 'application_name');
// If you need to watch for core Splunk components
splunkWatchConfig.watchForSplunk(watchConfig);

// Configure grunt
grunt.config.init({
  watch: watchConfig
});

// Use watch task by default
grunt.registerTask('default', ['watch']);

Grunt "splunk-pack" task

Pack application into tar.gz archive for uploading to the store

Usage

grunt.config.init({
  splunk: {
    pack: {
      sourceDir: __dirname,
      output: path.join(__dirname, 'myapp.tar.gz'),
      source: [
        '**/*',
        '!*.tar.gz'
      ]
    }
  }
});

Other useful hidden API

Module "splunkdev-grunt/lib/environment"

Function "splunkHome"

Helps to discover current Splunk home directory. It checks first for SPLUNK_HOME environment variable, after that checks if current working directory is subfolder of Splunk folder.

var splunkHome = require('splunkdev-grunt/lib/environment').splunkHome();

Module "splunkdev-grunt/lib/apps"

Function "getCurrentApp"

Gets current application if current working directory is under one of the applications in Splunk apps directory.

var currentApp = require('splunkdev-grunt/lib/apps').getCurrentApp();
if (!currentApp) {
  var applicationName = currentApp.name();
  var pathToApplication = currentApp.path();
}

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