How to perform Google Add-on automated deployment/publishing?

Question

My team is trying to apply modern software engineer techniques in developing an editor add-on for Google Spreadsheet.

With clasp, typescript, jest, git, GCP and CircleCI we were able to achieve:

• local development with our preferred source code management;
• unit testing/tdd on our domain rules;
• manage add-on versions by clasp;
• observability with Stackdriver on GCP;
• with CircleCi, we create a pipeline that executes unit-tests, makes clasp push and versions the add-on with the commit hash as a description.

In addition, through Google Marketplace SDK, the add-on has been distributed privately in our domain, therefore it doesn't need Google approval.

The point is: we're looking for a way to add a step in our pipeline to, programmatically, update and manage our published add-on.

e.g.: after the generation of a new version with clasp, how to put it in the App Configuration on GCP?

gcp app configuration page

In the documentation there are only manual steps.

Thank you all =)

Answer 1

At some time in the future, it may be possible to use the: G Suite Add-ons Cloud API to automatically "deploy" an add-on. https://developers.google.com/gsuite/add-ons/guides/alternate-runtimes-overview

But I'm not sure what a "deployment" includes.

I'm not sure if there is a way to do this through the Google Cloud Deployment Manager: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/deployment-manager

https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs

I don't see a gcloud command category for the G Suite Marketplace.

The G Suite Marketplace SDK is solely a Web Based UI tool. And even though there is a G Suite Marketplace API, it has no capability to create or update an editor add-on listing. https://developers.google.com/gsuite/marketplace/reference/rest?hl=en_US

There are aspects of the Cloud Project that the editor add-on is attached to, that can be programmatically managed through gcloud commands, using the G Cloud Projects tool. For example, you can set and update whether a user has permission to do certain things with the Cloud Project. But all of those things are in a different category than publishing a G Suite Marketplace editor add-on.

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/projects

The Cloud Project that the G Suite Marketplace SDK is associated with doesn't directly control the G Suite Marketplace SDK. I would look at the Google Cloud Deployment Manager to see if there is a way to do this. Other than the Google Cloud Deployment Manager, I haven't discovered any other leads that look hopeful.