Add clear and non-ambiguous maven properties to the maven plugin

When using Maven, often one wants to pass some of the plugin configuration via properties (-DmyProp).

Currently it seems some of the configuration are available via properties but:

• it’s not documented anywhere (usually plugins have each configuration mapped to an expression that is resolved by maven, and it appears in plugin doc as well as in IDE)
• it’s not clear if things like credHelper, if it is available as a property, is going to be applied to to, from or both.

It would be great if all the configuration could be specified via properties named like jib.to.credHelper and so on.

[victornoel]

@coollog hey thanks for the heads up! 👍

[chanseokoh]

It would be great if all the configuration could be specified via properties named like jib.to.credHelper and so on.

What you can do in the meantime is like this:

  <properties>
    <jib.to.credHelper>my-default-cred-helper</jib.to.credHelper>
  </properties>

      <plugin>
        <groupId>com.google.cloud.tools</groupId>
        <artifactId>jib-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>0.9.7</version>
        <configuration>
          <to>
            <image> ... </image>
            <credHelper>${jib.to.credHelper}</credHelper>
          </to>
        </configuration>

Then you can do, e.g., mvn -Djib.to.credHelper=docker jib:build.