Packaging.Pipeline - Beats

Beats Packaging pipeline

Buildkite packaging pipeline is used to build and publish the packages for the Beats. The pipeline is triggered by a commit to the main or release branches. The pipeline definition is located in the .buildkite/packaging.pipeline.yml

Triggers

Staging packaging DRA is triggered for release branches only. Snapshot is triggered for main and release branches.

Pipeline steps

Beats dashboard

Generates build/distributions/dependencies.csv and tar.gz and adds them to the beats-dashboards artifact. This is required by the release-manager configuration.

Packaging snapshot/staging

Builds the Beats packages for all supported platforms and architectures (mage package, mage ironbank)
Copies artifacts build/distributions/<beat>/ directory and adds it as an artifact, where <beat> is the corresponding beat name.
x-pack artifacts are also copied to build/distributions/<beat>/ directory, where <beat> is the name of the beat. For example, auditbeat, not x-pack/auditbeat. It's required for the DRA publish step by release-manager configuration.

DRA publish

Downloads the artifacts from the packaging snapshot/staging step and publishes them to the Elastic DRA registry.