*backgroud info: My team is currently only using Armada among many airship projects, and trying to leverage Deckhand as well.

Hi all,

I have questions regarding Deckhand usage.

My team has a lot of armada manifests for many sites as following and we want to use Deckhand’s layering feature to manage the manifests efficiently.

- global.yaml

- site1.yaml

- site2.yaml

  …

I’ve looked at the Deckhand documentation and it’s not clear how to use that functionality.

Q1. Deckhand standalone usage

In the installation document (https://airshipit.readthedocs.io/projects/deckhand/en/latest/users/getting-started.html#manual-installation),

I saw a “development mode”, which doesn’t require Keystone authentication. However, when I looked at the Operator guide (https://airshipit.readthedocs.io/projects/deckhand/en/latest/operators/api_client.html), I couldn’t see how I can use Deckhand client without Keystone auth.  Is it even possible?

Q2. Layering

As I mentioned above, my team have a lot of armada manifest files for various sites. How can I upload multiple manifests (Eg, global & site1) to the bucket and perform layering on those documents?

Should I merge multiple files into one large string and upload it to the bucket?  If it’s true, does the bucket update automatically trigger rendering process or should I explicitly call some rendering function??

Can anyone give an example code?

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Robert Choi