Using kibana source's plugin directory

Elastic Stack Kibana
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Hello all,

We modify our own kibana instance. Recently I decided to add a foo plugin in the source's plugin directory. Will this foo plugin be bundled if I do a "npm run build" ??? That is, will I need to manually install it later, or will it automatically be part of our kibana instance.

Cheers,
Joey Andres

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npm run build will not bundle your plugin with Kibana, but you can do this by doing the following:

  1. build kibana with npm run build
  2. extract the tarball or zip archive for the platform you are targeting
  3. install your plugin with bin/kibana-plugin install file:/path/to/your/plugin
  4. recreate the archive after plugin installation completes

If you want to support multiple platforms you'll have to do the last three steps for each platform, but I assume you won't need more than one configuration.

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What I did is modify the build tasks and copy all the content of the src/plugins to the build/**/plugins directory, after build/**/plugins is created.

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