Main Feature: Publishing Service

[JMAR059]

The main feature this extension should try to achieve is the easy publishing of an edge service. This is so that publishing could be done all through one or two lines. If you look at the steps that should be taken to test and publish a service (link below), there are quite a couple of steps, most of which can be automated.

Link: https://open-horizon.github.io/docs/developing/transform_image/

A good idea for the extension would be to not only automate this process, but offer a UI which allows you to more easily view publishable docker images, select them, do custom testing, and possibly do some of the configuration process before more easily. It would be wise to first get the main process working before working on some enhancements to the process.

Since most users using Docker Desktop are on Windows, the thought of method to achieve this was using Auto-Doc built by Jeff Lu since it is one of the only ways to access an agent through windows without a separate VM. For discussion on this, check issue #2 .

Discussion on the feature and implementation can be made here.