Chapter 7. Packaging Applications

In this chapter, we will cover how to properly package your App for publishing. Packaging your App correctly is critical to allowing you to publish the App on Splunkbase. Splunk provides a set of guidelines and standards that must be met for your App to be included on Splunkbase. Splunkbase is the official repository for Splunk Apps and add-ons, created by both Splunk and other contributors. Packaging also gives you the opportunity to brand and document your App in a manner that clearly defines you and your brand. Splunkbase automatically checks the structure of your App when you upload it, so it is important to make sure you cross your Ts and dot your Is before you upload. As we progress through this chapter, we will package our App and get it ready for deployment to Splunkbase. We will first go over the naming guidelines, and then cover some standards and best practices. Once we detail what needs to happen, we will see how to actually package...