airbyte/airbyte-config/init

airbyte-config:init

This module fulfills two responsibilities:

1. It is where we declare what connectors should ship with the Platform. See below for more instruction on how it works.
2. It contains the scripts and Dockerfile that allow the docker-compose version of Airbyte to mount the local filesystem. This is helpful in cases where a user wants to use a connector that interacts with (reads data from or writes data to) the local filesystem. e.g. destination-local-json.

Declaring connectors that ship with the Platform

In order to have a connector ship with the Platform it must be present in the respective source_definitions.yaml or destination_definitions.yaml files in src/main/resources/seed. If a connector is added there, the build system will handle fetching its spec and adding it to source_specs.yaml or destination_specs.yaml. See the gradle tasks to understand how this all works. The logic for fetching the specs is in airbyte-config:specs.