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Publishing schemas to GraphOS

Using the Rover CLI


Whenever you make changes to a graph's schema, you should publish those changes to Apollo GraphOS using the Rover CLI. Doing so ensures that Apollo always has an up-to-date understanding of your graph.

⚠️ If you haven't installed Rover yet:

  1. Install the Rover CLI.
  2. Authenticate Rover with GraphOS.

Subgraph schemas

Every supergraph in GraphOS includes one or more subgraphs. You individually publish each subgraph's schema to Apollo with rover subgraph publish:

rover subgraph publish --schema ./products.graphql --name products docs-example-graph@current --routing-url https://products.example.com
rover subgraph publish
rover subgraph publish
rover subgraph publish
Products
subgraph
Reviews
subgraph
Inventory
subgraph
GraphOS

To publish a subgraph schema to Apollo:

  1. Identify the name of the subgraph you're publishing to. You can view the names of your existing subgraphs from your variant's Subgraphs page in Apollo Studio.

  2. If you're publishing a subgraph for the first time, also obtain the routing URL for that subgraph. This is the URL that your router will use to communicate with the subgraph.

    • If GraphOS already knows your subgraph's routing URL, you don't need to provide this value unless you're changing it.
  3. Run the rover subgraph publish command and provide it your subgraph's schema in one of the ways shown:

    # Provide a local .graphql file path
    rover subgraph publish my-graph@my-variant --name locations --routing-url https://flyby-locations-sub.herokuapp.com/ --schema ./schema.graphql
    # Provide an introspection result via stdin
    rover subgraph introspect http://localhost:4000 | rover subgraph publish my-graph@my-variant --name locations --routing-url https://flyby-locations-sub.herokuapp.com/ --schema -

Whenever you publish a subgraph schema, GraphOS attempts to compose all latest versions of your subgraph schemas into a single supergraph schema for your router:

(Composition succeeds)
Subgraph
schema
A
Subgraph
schema
B
Subgraph
schema
C
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Composition
Supergraph schema
(A + B + C + routing machinery)

If this composition succeeds, your router is updated with the result. This enables clients to query any newly added fields, and it prevents them from querying any removed fields.

You can manually fetch your router's latest supergraph schema with the rover supergraph fetch command, or retrieve it from your supergraph's Schema > SDL page in Apollo Studio.

Publishing with continuous delivery

To get the most out of GraphOS, you should publish each update to any production schema as soon as it occurs. Consequently, schema publishing should be part of your continuous delivery pipeline.

Here's a sample continuous delivery configuration for schema publishing in CircleCI:

version: 2
jobs:
build:
docker:
- image: circleci/node:8
steps:
- checkout
- run: npm install
- run:
name: Install Rover
command: |
# Download and install Rover
# This is pinned to a specific version for predictability in CI
curl -sSL https://rover.apollo.dev/nix/v0.8.1 | sh
# This allows the PATH changes to persist to the next `run` step
echo 'export PATH=$HOME/.rover/bin:$PATH' >> $BASH_ENV
# Start the GraphQL server. If a different command is used to
# start the server, use it in place of `npm start` here.
- run:
name: Starting server
command: npm start
background: true
# make sure the server has enough time to start up before running
# commands against it
- run: sleep 5
# When running on the 'main' branch, push the latest version
# of the schema to GraphOS.
- run: |
if [ "${CIRCLE_BRANCH}" == "main" ]; then
rover subgraph publish my-graph@my-variant \
--schema ./schema.graphql \
--name locations \
--routing-url https://products.example.com
fi

Monolith schemas

⚠️ These instructions apply only to monographs, which are not recommended.

  1. If you haven't yet:

  2. Decide how you'll provide your server's schema to Rover. You can either:

    • Use a .gql or .graphql file saved on your local machine, or
    • Perform an introspection query on your running server to fetch the schema
  3. Run the rover graph publish command, providing your schema in one of the ways shown:

    # Provide a local .graphql file path
    rover graph publish my-graph@my-variant --schema ./schema.graphql
    # Provide an introspection result via stdin
    rover graph introspect http://localhost:4000 | rover graph publish my-graph@my-variant --schema -

    As shown, the first positional argument you provide rover graph publish is a graph ref, a string that specifies a particular variant of a particular graph in GraphOS.

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