Pandora

Pandora is a suite of single-purpose tools which enable transforming the Azure API Definitions into both a Go SDK and Terraform Resources.

These tools are:

1. Rest API Specs Importer - imports data from the Azure OpenAPI/Swagger Definitions into the intermediate C# format used by the Data API.
2. Data API - exposes the imported API Definitions over an HTTP API (for ease of consumption in other tooling).
3. Go SDK Generator - generates a Go SDK using data from the Data API.
4. Terraform Generator - generates Terraform Resources using data from the Data API.
5. Version Bumper - used to add new Azure Services and new API Versions for existing Azure Services to the config.

At the current time only Resource Manager Services are supported - although we're looking to support Microsoft Graph and (potentially) the Data Plane APIs in the future.

Getting Started

The following dependencies are required:

• Golang 1.20.x
• .NET 7.x

At first checkout you'll need to both initialize and then update the Git submodule:

$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

The Swagger Git Submodule is updated every weekday (via Dependabot) - once updated you'll need to update your submodule, via:

$ git submodule update

How does this work?

Pandora's primarily intended to be run in automation (using both Github Actions and Dependabot) - which gets run once a Pull Request is merged.

• Once a Pull Request is merged that updates one of the following paths, the Rest API Specs Importer is run.
  • The Resource Manager Config (./config/resource-manager.hcl).
  • The Resource Manager Swagger Git Submodule (./submodules/rest-api-specs).
  • Any of the tooling within ./tools.
• If the Rest API Specs Importer outputs any changes to the Imported API Definitions, those are committed and a Pull Request is opened.
• Once that PR is merged, if there's any changes then the hashicorp/go-azure-sdk repository is updated in the same fashion via the Go SDK Generator (outputting any new/changes to the Go SDK).
• At the same time, if there's any changes then the hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm repository is also updated via the Terraform Generator (outputting any new/changes to the Terraform Generator).

To show the workflow with examples:

1. A Pull Request is opened to add a new Service/API version to the config (example).
2. Once that Pull Request is merged that generates a Data API PR (example).
3. Once that Pull Request is merged that generates a Go SDK PR (example).
4. Once that Pull Request is merged the SDK is automatically released (e.g. we add a new git tag).

For information and guides and on how to contribute, add services, service versions or resources, see the overview of guides located in the ./docs.

Project Structure

• ./config/resource-manager.hcl - contains the list of Resource Manager Services and API Versions which should be imported.
• ./data - contains the Data API, containing the transformed Azure API Definitions in the intermediate C# format.
• ./docs - contains documentation.
• ./submodules/msgraph-metadata - contains the Git Submodule to the microsoftgraph/msgraph-metadata repository - containing the OpenAPI/Swagger definitions for Microsoft Graph.
• ./submodules/rest-api-specs - contains the Git Submodule to the Azure/azure-rest-api-specs repository - containing the OpenAPI/Swagger definitions for Azure Resource Manager.
• ./tools/data-api-differ - contains the Data API Differ which detects changes to the API Definitions.
• ./tools/generator-go-sdk - contains the Go SDK Generator, pulling information from the Data API.
• ./tools/generator-terraform - contains the Terraform Generator, pulling information from the Data API.
• ./tools/importer-msgraph-metadata - contains the Importer for the Microsoft Graph API Definitions.
• ./tools/importer-rest-api-specs - contains the Importer for the Azure Resource Manager OpenAPI/Swagger definitions.
• ./tools/version-bumper - contains a small tool to add new Services and new API Versions for existing Services to the config.

There's also few helper tools (for example, for use in automation):

• ./tools/extract-tf-resource-ids - contains the tool used to output a list of Resource IDs included in a given Pull Request.
• ./tools/sdk - contains a lightweight HTTP API for the Data API.
• ./tools/wrapper-automation - launches the Data API and then the Rest API Specs Importer/Go SDK/Terraform Generator for use in automation.