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 # akka-http-template.g8
-A Giter8 template for creating a new project using the latest Akka-HTTP libraries and best practises suggested by the Cake Team.
+
+A Giter8 template for creating a new project using the latest Akka-HTTP libraries and best practises suggested by the
+Cake Team.
+
+## Using the Template
+
+To use, ensure that you have SBT 0.13.13 or higher installed.
+
+Then:
+
+```
+sbt new cakesolutions/akka-http-template.g8
+```
+
+You will be asked to fill out some properties required for correctly building your project, once complete `giter8` will
+create an SBT project layout with our opinionated layout and configuration.  You can now move to your new project it
+will have all of the lovely features outlined above.  This should free you up to solve the really tough problems in the
+project.
+
+Following the creation of a project, you will need to configure the following additional items (they are all identified
+by ```FIXME```s):
+* ```sbt.resolvers``` - this file should ideally be pinned to use a project specific Nexus or Artifactory for caching
+  and managing project library dependencies. **All** resolver settings should be placed in this file.
+* ```build.sbt``` - this file needs the following autoplugin setting keys to be configured:
+  * ```snapshotRepositoryResolver``` - this URL should point to the Nexus or Artifactory snapshot repository
+  * ```repositoryResolver``` - this URL should point to the Nexus or Artifactory publishing repository
+  * ```issueManagementUrl``` - this URL should point to the Jira project management API
+  * ```issueManagementProject``` - this string should name the Jira project against which the project code is managed.
+* ```project/ProjectPlugin.scala``` - this file needs the following autoplugin setting keys to be configured:
+  * ```startYear``` - this integer list should be set to the yers that copyrights will be enforced in and from
+  * ```licenses``` - this should be altered to the particular commercial or open source license that a project will use
+  * ```headerLicense``` - this should be altered to the particular commercial or open source license comment header that
+    will be added to each file.
+
+## Contributing to the Template
+
+This template will be an evolving opinion, PRs are welcome.
+
+To test the output of the template you can run it locally with the following command:
+
+```
+sbt new file://./akka-http-template.g8
+```
+
+# Project Template Features
+
+TODO:
+
+## Key Build Files
+
+### `project/project/Dependencies.scala`
+
+TODO: mention limitation in that it is not easy to use CakePlatformPluginKeys here
+
+### `project/ProjectPlugin.scala`
+
+TODO:
+
+### `project/ProjectDockerBuildPlugin.scala`
+
+TODO:
+
+## Application Bootstrapping
+
+TODO: sys.exit control; exit codes; start-up logging; Monix tasks
+
+### Retrying on Bootstrapping Errors
+
+TODO: backoff logic; limited vs unlimited retries
+
+## Validated Configuration
+
+TODO: need to validate; need to generate Typesafe config **from** validated config (don't use the underlying raw object!)
+
+## Logging
+
+TODO: start-up logging; MDC structured logging; Zipkin logging
+
+# AWS Jenkins Debugging
+
+Should you be unfortunate enough to find yourself in a situation where you need to physically debug a build within a
+Jenkins environment, then we can achieve this as follows:
+* login and pull the relevant Jenkins Docker slave image into your local development Docker registry
+  * if using AWS ECR to host Jenkins Docker slave images (e.g. using profile `cakesolutions` and region `XXX` to pull
+    version `1.2.3` of the image `ZZZ`), then enter a variant of the following:
+    ```bash
+    docker login $(aws --profile cakesolutions ecr --region XXX get-login)
+    docker pull ZZZ:1.2.3
+    ```
+* run the local Jenkins Docker slave image with a `bash` entry point
+  ```bash
+  docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -it ZZZ bash
+  # You should now be at the running containers command line prompt
+  ```
+* ensure any specialised container packages are installed
+  * for example, it might be necessary to install `ncurses` within a base Alpine image, in which case you would enter a
+    variant of the following:
+    ```bash
+    apk add --update ncurses
+    ```
+* ensure any required environment variables are set
+  * for example:
+    ```bash
+    export CI=docker-local
+    export DOCKER_COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=local
+    ```
+* clone and manually build your project code - for example, to compile feature branch `WWW` for project `YYY`:
+  ```base
+  git clone https://github.com/cakesolutions/YYY.git
+  cd YYY
+  git checkout feature/WWW
+  sbt clean compile
+  ```
+
+# Releasing of the `akka-http-template.g8` Template
+
+In order to release version `X.Y.Z` of the `akka-http-template.g8` template, perform the following actions:
+```
+git tag -s vX.Y.Z
+git push --tags
+```
+
+Releasing of templates is simply a matter of adding tags to the github repository.