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# Developers Guide
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This guide explains how to set up your environment for developing on
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Helm and Tiller.
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## Prerequisites
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- Go 1.6.0 or later
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- Glide 0.10.2 or later
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- kubectl 1.2 or later
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- A Kubernetes cluster (optional)
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- The gRPC toolchain
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## Building Helm/Tiller
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We use Make to build our programs. The simplest way to get started is:
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```console
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$ make boostrap build
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```
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This will build both Helm and Tiller.
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To run all of the tests (without running the tests for `vendor/`), run
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`make test`.
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To run Helm and Tiller locally, you can run `bin/helm` or `bin/tiller`.
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- Helm and Tiller are known to run on Mac OSX and most Linuxes, including
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Alpine.
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- Tiller must have access to a Kubernets cluster. It learns about the
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cluster by examining the Kube config files that `kubectl` uese.
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## gRPC and Protobuf
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Helm and Tiller communicate using gRPC. To get started with gRPC, you will need to...
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- Install `protoc` for compiling protobuf files. Releases are
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[here](https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases)
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- Install the protoc Go plugin: `go get -u github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go`
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Note that you need to be on protobuf 3.x (`protoc --version`) and use the latest Go plugin.
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### The Helm API (HAPI)
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We use gRPC as an API layer. See `pkg/proto/hapi` for the generated Go code,
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and `_proto` for the protocol buffer definitions.
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To regenerate the Go files from the protobuf source, `cd _proto &&
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make`.
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## Docker Images
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To build Docker images, use `make docker-build`
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## Running a Local Cluster
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You can run tests locally using the `scripts/local-cluster.sh` script to
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start Kubernetes inside of a Docker container. For OS X, you will need
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to be running `docker-machine`.
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## Contribution Guidelines
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We welcome contributions. This project has set up some guidelines in
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order to ensure that (a) code quality remains high, (b) the project
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remains consistent, and (c) contributions follow the open source legal
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requirements. Our intent is not to burden contributors, but to build
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elegant and high-quality open source code so that our users will benefit.
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Make sure you have read and understood the main CONTRIBUTING guide:
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https://github.com/kubernetes/helm/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
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We follow the coding standards and guidelines outlined by the Deis
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project:
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https://github.com/deis/workflow/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
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https://github.com/deis/workflow/blob/master/src/contributing/submitting-a-pull-request.md
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Adidtionally, contributors must have a CLA with CNCF/Google before we can
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accept contributions.
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