Internals

Development

Build, test, and ship changes to AX itself.

Prerequisites

Go 1.27+
ko for building and deploying control plane images
Docker or Podman for the task runner image
A Kubernetes cluster and kubeconfig

Build

make build                 # bin/ax, bin/ax-controller, bin/ax-server
make install               # install the ax CLI into $(go env GOPATH)/bin
make build-task-runner     # cross-compile the runner for linux/amd64 and build its image
make push-task-runner      # ...and push it (set TASK_RUNNER_REPO)

Test

Runs everything, including the mock Substrate gRPC server, in-memory store validation, and API server tests:

make test        # or: go test -v ./...

Contributing

AX is released under the Apache License 2.0. Source, issues, and pull requests live on GitHub.