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BOSS "Build Orchestration Supervision System"

BOSS is a workflow orchestrator, a system that can be configured to automate your workflow requirements; it interacts with the OBS and with people and systems around it to apply your workflow steps.

MeeGo will use BOSS to orchestrate a CI (Continuous Integration) ecosystem around OBS.

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Why

  • we need a robust, flexible way of configuring a set of triggers (ex. OBS event or a submit request) and responses
  • OBS is a build system, not a general workflow system
  • there is need for automation of responses to OBS actions results
  • OBS requests are good but not flexible nor extensible
  • there's fear of OBS becoming a big black box doing all the magic (maintainability)
  • Hermes is there, but it is just taking care of notifications

Requirements

  • parallel worflows for parallel software programmes
  • allows for parallel implementation of the system
  • plugins are usable independently
  • take away the productization process/logic from the build infrastructure

What is BOSS

There is a page describing the details of the [/Design design]

  • a workflow framework allowing site-specific workflow definition
  • a message bus and queue-manager to handle delivery of incoming messages from all existing systems to the worklow framework
  • a queue-based job distribution system that handles delivery to pools of workers

OBS event publisher

One important part of BOSS integration will be the connectivity with the OBS. Obs events.png

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