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---
title: The Recipe Catalogue
---
## How are new recipes added to the catalogue?
> This is so far a manual process which requires someone who's been added to the
> `coop-cloud` "Organisation" on https://git.coopcloud.tech.
>
> This is a temporary situation, we want to open out this process & also introduce some automation
> to support making thie process more convenient. Please nag us to move things along on Matrix.
- Publish your new recipe on the [git.coopcloud.tech](https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud) "Organisation"
- Run `abra catalogue generate <recipe> -p`
- Run `cd ~/.abra/catalogue && make`
These minimal steps will publish a new recipe with no versions. You can also do
the [recipe release publishing dance](https://docs.coopcloud.tech/maintainers/handbook/#how-do-i-release-a-new-recipe-version)
which will then extend the `versions: [...]` section of the published JSON in the catalogue.
Recipes that are not included in the catalogue can still be deployed. It is not
required to add your recipes to the catalogue, but this will improve the
visibility for other co-op hosters & end-users.
For now, it is best to [get in touch](https://docs.coopcloud.tech/intro/contact/) if you want to add your recipe to the catalogue.
In the future, we'd like to support [multiple catalogues](https://git.coopcloud.tech/toolshed/organising/issues/139).
## How do I make the catalogue automatically regenerate after new recipe versions are published?
"I'd like to make it so that whenever I push a new git tag to the
[`coop-cloud/rallly` repository](https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/rallly)
(probably [using `abra recipe
release`](#how-do-i-release-a-new-recipe-version)), it automatically does the
[recipe catalogue generation steps](#how-do-i-generate-the-recipe-catalogue)"
1. Check whether tag builds are already trying to run: go to
https://build.coopcloud.tech, search for the recipe name (in this case taking
you to https://build.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/rallly/settings). If there are
failing builds, or if you see builds succeeding but catalogue regeneration
doesn't seem to be happening, then either dive in and try and fix it, or ask
for help in [`#coopcloud-tech`](https://matrix.to/#/#coopcloud-tech:autonomic.zone)
2. Otherwise, click "activate repository". You probably want to set the "disable pull
requests" and "disable forks" options; they won't work anyway, but the
failures might be confusing.
3. Make sure there is a `generate recipe catalogue` step in the recipe's
`.drone.yml` -- if there isn't, you can copy [the one from
`coop-cloud/rallly`](https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/rallly/src/branch/main/.drone.yml#L24-L38) unchanged.
4. That's it! Now, when you push a new tag, the recipe catalogue will regenerate
automatically. You can test this by re-pushing a tag (e.g. `git push origin
:0.5.0+3.5.1 && git push 0.5.0+3.5.1`)
## How does automatic catalogue regeneration work?
**TODO: write up properly**
Context: the catalogue lives in a git repo here: https://git.coopcloud.tech/toolshed/recipes-catalogue-json
The expectation is that this repo will only be updated automatically. While manual commits are possible, they're likely to be overwritten.
Automatic regeneration is handled by this Drone step, in the separate `auto-recipes-catalogue-json` repo: https://git.coopcloud.tech/toolshed/auto-recipes-catalogue-json/src/branch/main/.drone.yml#L5-L25
This is run on a daily schedule (question: where is `nightly-app-date` configured?), and can also be triggered by recipe repositories to make new versions available quicker see "[How do I make the catalogue automatically regenerate after new versions are published?](#how-do-i-make-the-catalogue-automatically-regenerate-after-new-versions-are-published)" above.
## How do I manually generate the recipe catalogue
> These days, doing this is only useful in the event of troubleshooting the automatic catalogue regeneration
To generate an entire new copy of the catalogue:
```
abra catalogue generate
```
You will most likely want to pass `--user/--username` / `--pass/--password` with container regsitry credentials to avoid rate limiting.
If you just want to generate a catalogue entry for a single recipe:
```
abra catalogue generate <recipe>
```
The changes are generated and added to `~/.abra/catalogue`, you can validate what is done by running:
```
cd ~/.abra/catalogue
git diff
```
You can pass `--publish` to have `abra` automatically publish those changes.
!!! warning "Here be more SSH dragons"
In order to have `abra` publish changes for you automatically, you'll have to have write permissons to the git.coopcloud.tech repository and your account must have a working SSH key configuration. `abra` will use the SSH based URL connection details for Git by automagically creating an `origin-ssh` remote in the repository and pushing to it.