Files
superset2/docs/developer_docs/extensions/deployment.md
Evan Rusackas 0fb7fc2721 docs: bifurcate documentation into user, admin, and developer sections
Major restructuring of documentation to separate concerns:

**New Structure:**
- `/docs/` - User-facing docs (intro, quickstart, databases, using-superset, faq)
- `/admin-docs/` - Administrator docs (installation, configuration, security)
- `/developer-docs/` - Developer docs (contributing, extensions, guidelines, testing)

**Changes:**
- Move installation, configuration, and security docs to admin_docs/
- Move contributing, extensions, guidelines, and testing to developer_docs/
- Rename developer_portal to developer_docs (with underscore to hyphen in URL)
- Add sidebarAdminDocs.js for admin documentation navigation
- Update versions-config.json with new doc sections
- Update docusaurus.config.ts with new plugins and redirects
- Update internal links in versioned docs (6.0.0) to use new paths
- Keep user-facing content (databases, using-superset, faq) in main docs

This separation makes it clearer which documentation is relevant for:
- End users exploring and visualizing data
- Administrators deploying and configuring Superset
- Developers contributing to or extending Superset

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-24 11:41:27 -08:00

2.1 KiB

title, sidebar_position
title sidebar_position
Deployment 7

Deployment

Once an extension has been developed, the deployment process involves packaging and uploading it to the host application.

Packaging is handled by the superset-extensions bundle command, which:

  1. Builds frontend assets using Webpack (with Module Federation configuration).
  2. Collects backend Python source files and all necessary resources.
  3. Generates a manifest.json with build-time metadata, including the contents of extension.json and references to built assets.
  4. Packages everything into a .supx file (a zip archive with a specific structure required by Superset).

To deploy an extension, place the .supx file in the extensions directory configured via EXTENSIONS_PATH in your superset_config.py:

EXTENSIONS_PATH = "/path/to/extensions"

During application startup, Superset automatically discovers and loads all .supx files from this directory:

  1. Scans the configured directory for .supx files.
  2. Validates each file is a properly formatted zip archive.
  3. Extracts and validates the extension manifest and metadata.
  4. Loads the extension, making it available for use.

This file-based approach simplifies deployment in containerized environments and enables version control of extensions alongside infrastructure configuration.