Scripts And Results

Often, we just want a template that executes a script specified as a here-script (also known as a here document) in the workflow spec. This example shows how to do that:

apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: Workflow
metadata:
  generateName: scripts-bash-
spec:
  entrypoint: bash-script-example
  templates:
  - name: bash-script-example
    steps:
    - - name: generate
        template: gen-random-int-bash
    - - name: print
        template: print-message
        arguments:
          parameters:
          - name: message
            value: "{{steps.generate.outputs.result}}"  # The result of the here-script

  - name: gen-random-int-bash
    script:
      image: debian:9.4
      command: [bash]
      source: |                                         # Contents of the here-script
        cat /dev/urandom | od -N2 -An -i | awk -v f=1 -v r=100 '{printf "%i\n", f + r * $1 / 65536}'

  - name: gen-random-int-python
    script:
      image: python:alpine3.6
      command: [python]
      source: |
        import random
        i = random.randint(1, 100)
        print(i)

  - name: gen-random-int-javascript
    script:
      image: node:9.1-alpine
      command: [node]
      source: |
        var rand = Math.floor(Math.random() * 100);
        console.log(rand);

  - name: print-message
    inputs:
      parameters:
      - name: message
    container:
      image: alpine:latest
      command: [sh, -c]
      args: ["echo result was: {{inputs.parameters.message}}"]

The script keyword allows the specification of the script body using the source tag. This creates a temporary file containing the script body and then passes the name of the temporary file as the final parameter to command, which should be an interpreter that executes the script body.

The use of the script feature also assigns the standard output of running the script to a special output parameter named result. This allows you to use the result of running the script itself in the rest of the workflow spec. In this example, the result is simply echoed by the print-message template.

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