topic Re: Packaging a Splunk in Splunk Dev

Packaging a Splunk

Marco — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:56:04 GMT

Hello All,

What is the difference between packaging a Splunk app using Splunk's Packaging Toolkit and packaging the app via the Splunk Package App command?

I've packaged the app both ways:

When I use Splunk's Packaging Toolkit I get a tar.gz.

When I use the Splunk command splunk package app TestApp I get a .SPL

Which isn't an issue, I can convert an SPL into a tar.gz. My question is does the Packaging Toolkit do something that the Splunk package app command can't?

Re: Packaging a Splunk

somesoni2 — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:32:13 GMT

The toolkit can do more based on application manifest file. See this for more information.

https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/releaseapps/packageapps/packagingtoolkit/#About-partitioning-apps

Re: Packaging a Splunk

Marco — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:00:14 GMT

I found the answer.

I am currently using Splunk 8.1 and it looks like the Splunk's Packaging toolkit is built into it. If you go into the Splunk Bin folder you can issue Slim commands from there.

For Example,

C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin>slim usage: slim [-v] [-h] [--debug] [--quiet] {config,describe,generate-manifest,package,partition,validate,update-installation} ... execute a packaging toolkit command options: -v, --version show program's version number and exit -h, --help show this help message and exit --debug save debugging information --quiet suppress all messages except error messages slim commands: {config,describe,generate-manifest,package,partition,validate,update-installation} config get, set, or unset user or system options describe describe an app and its dependencies generate-manifest create a new or updated app manifest package make an app source package for distribution partition split an app source package into a set of targeted deployment packages validate verify an app and its dependencies update-installation perform an update action on an installation graph

Which is exactly the same thing as the Splunk Packaging tool kit. To package an app here just issue the following:

slim package "C:\Users\MyAppDirectory"

In conclusion, Splunk's Packaging Toolkit is already built into Splunk.