Guide to publish custom versions from Argo Workflows

This guide will help you to publish a custom version of Argo Workflows with optimal dependencies. This guide will cater specific to the devtron-labs project use case.

Prerequisites

• Git
• golang version 1.21 or higher
• bash shell

Steps

• Clone the Argo Workflows repository

git clone https://github.com/devtron-labs/argo-workflows.git
cd argo-workflows

• Add remote to the official Argo Workflows repository

git remote add upstream https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows.git
git remote update

• Export the version of Argo Workflows you want to publish

export Tag=v3.5.10
export TagHash=$(git ls-remote upstream $Tag | cut -f1)

• Validate the version and commit hash

echo $Tag
echo $TagHash

• Create a new branch for the custom version

git checkout -b release-$Tag $TagHash

• Get the prerequisites for the custom version from main branch and commit them

git checkout main ./go.mod ./go.sum ./Makefile ./.gitignore ./.gitattributes ./README.md
git commit -am "initial commit"

• Setup commit changes for the custom version by make command

make tag=$Tag

• Commit and push the changes to the custom version branch

git commit -am "release: $Tag"
git push --set-upstream origin release-$Tag

• Finally, create a git tag for the custom version

make git-tagging

• Now, create a new release in the GitHub repository with the selected version tag

• All set! You have successfully published a custom version of Argo Workflows