Plugins SDKs

Plugins SDKs

To facilitate the development of plugins, The Falco Project provides SDKs for multiple programming languages: Go, C++, and Rust. These SDKs provide flexibility for developers to choose the programming language they are most comfortable with while ensuring a consistent and streamlined experience when building Falco plugins.

C++ SDK

The C++ SDK provides abstract base classes for plugin development. Plugin authors can derive from these base classes and implement abstract methods to:

• Supply plugin metadata and capabilities.
• Provide events.
• Extract fields from events.

Go SDK

We offer a Go SDK that simplifies plugin development by providing support code and abstractions. This SDK includes:

• Go structs and enums corresponding to the C structs and enums used by the plugin API.
• Utility packages to handle memory management and type conversions.
• Abstract interfaces that provide a streamlined and user-friendly way to implement plugins.

For a detailed explanation of the architecture and usage of the Go SDK, refer to the Go SDK walkthrough section.

Rust SDK

We recently introduced a Rust SDK, enabling developers to write plugins in Rust. The Rust SDK offers a safe, idiomatic interface for interacting with the Falco plugin API while leveraging Rust’s strong type system and memory safety guarantees.