Provide binaries for each release

[weeco]

The release & build process is rather complex and requires some knowledge about what environment variables the code expects. For users who don't use docker it would be helpful if we provide a binary which they can use, so that they don't need to compile the backend and frontend on their own.

[rikimaru0345]

https://github.com/rakyll/statik

[rikimaru0345]

A "simple" release like this is intended to be a quick demo, for testing.

• Should be a single executable (with the frontend packed into the binary).
• Should only require a configuration file (to specify the kafka cluster / credentials).
• When started without config it should generate a template (and print a message about it).
• Should not require (does not mean it wouldn't support them) any commandline arguments; all needed infos/credentials would be in the config file; path to config file would be something like ./kowl-config.yaml.
• Should not require a database
  • Maybe just keep everything in ram/not have any persistence? :/
  • A very simple "yaml file on disk" persistence implementation should be easy to do though.
  • Or maybe disable features that need persistence and show that in the frontend (would be more work though)

[PeterFalken]

I would love to see binary releases for this project.

[weeco]

We'll take a look at this issue again once https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41191 is available. This might make it easier for us than using rakyll's statik lib. Removing the 1.3 milestone for now

[weeco]

New binaries have been released as part of the v2 release. Linux packages are also available, hence closing this issue.