Setup for Plugin Development​Setup for ​Plugin ​Development

Setup your environment for Plugin Development.

Plugin Template

To get started with building a new plugin, make sure to use the plugin-template, as it comes prepackaged with the standardized repository structure and deployment workflows.

That template will create a project hosting a group of plugins β€” we usually create multiple subplugins for a given service. For example, there's only one plugin for AWS, but it includes many subplugins for specific AWS services.

Requirements

Kestra plugins development requirements are:

  • Java 21 or later.
  • IntelliJ IDEA (or any other Java IDE, we provide only help for IntelliJ IDEA).
  • Gradle (included most of the time with the IDE).

Create a new plugin

Here are the steps:

  1. Go on the plugin-template repository.
  2. Click on Use this template.
  3. Choose the GitHub account you want to link and the repository name for the new plugin.
  4. Clone the new repository: git clone [email protected]:{{user}}/{{name}}.git.
  5. Open the cloned directory in IntelliJ IDEA.
  6. Enable annotations processors.
  7. If you are using an IntelliJ IDEA < 2020.03, install the lombok plugins (if not, it's included by default).

Once you completed the steps above, you should see a similar directory structure:

Structure

As you can see, there is one generated plugin: the Example class representing the Example plugin (a task).

A project typically hosts multiple plugins. We call a project a group of plugins, and you can have multiple sub-groups inside a project by splitting plugins into different packages. Each package that has a plugin class is a sub-group of plugins.

Plugin icons

Plugin icons need to be added in the SVG format β€” see an example here in the JIRA plugin.

Where can you find icons?

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