Volume 3 — Integration Automation and CI Orchestration — contents
Volume 3 — Integration Automation and CI Orchestration
  1. Foreword
  2. Chapter 1 — What Integration-Level Automation Is
  3. Chapter 2 — Why Most CI YAML Grows Monstrously
  4. Chapter 3 — The Contract: Six Typed Configuration Categories
  5. Chapter 4 — Specifications
  6. Chapter 5 — Landscape Files
  7. Chapter 6 — Topology Files
  8. Chapter 7 — Runtime Files vs Environment Variables
  9. Chapter 8 — Data Profiles
  10. Chapter 9 — Credential Vocabularies
  11. Chapter 10 — Credential Resolution
  12. Chapter 11 — Credentials in Flight
  13. Chapter 12 — Credentials Across Environments
  14. Chapter 13 — The Development-Environment Ladder
  15. Chapter 14 — Configuration Profiles as a Discipline
  16. Chapter 15 — The Local-Dev Tax and How Typed Configs Cancel It
  17. Chapter 16 — Reproducing CI Failures Locally
  18. Chapter 17 — Profile Promotion
  19. Chapter 18 — The taskplus Task Model
  20. Chapter 19 — Built-in Task Types
  21. Chapter 20 — Workflow YAML Grammar
  22. Chapter 21 — Passing Information to Jobs
  23. Chapter 22 — Flow Control as Data
  24. Chapter 23 — Extending the Task Model
  25. Chapter 24 — Wiring to a Real CI Vendor
  26. Chapter 25 — Bridges to Other Layers
  27. Chapter 26 — Case Study: Porting a Real Pipeline
  28. Chapter 27 — Where This Approach Is Not the Right Fit
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Volume 3 — Integration Automation and CI Orchestration

Typed Configurations as the Contract Between Orchestrations and Jobs

About this volume

The orchestration layer is structurally distinct from the job layer, and the thesis that unifies the portfolio's integration story is typed configurations as the contract between orchestrations and jobs. Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 all refer to Part IV ("Workflow Across Environments"), because profiles are how you eliminate os.environ.get('CI') branches across a codebase. This is the headline volume of the series and its largest non-AI volume.

Who it is for

Platform engineers, DevOps and QA infrastructure engineers running multi-step pipelines that need to provision, run, observe and tear down across multiple machines and configurations. Also any Python engineer who wants a development workflow that scales from a local laptop to a nightly full sweep without rewriting code at any boundary.

Source material

  • codecraftai-taskplus — the task model and the FlowEngine
  • codecraftai-configuration, codecraftai-credentials — the typed configuration categories and credential handling
  • Parts of codecraftai-this-app, codecraftai-landscaping and codecraftai-provisioning

Contents

Part Chapters Theme
I — The Discipline Foreword + 1, 2, 3 The orchestration-vs-jobs layered model; the six-category contract
II — Configuration Categories 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Specifications, Landscapes, Topologies, Runtimes, Data Profiles
III — Credential Management 9, 10, 11, 12 Vocabulary, resolution discipline, in-flight lifecycle, environment spanning
IV — Workflow Across Environments 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 The four-environment ladder, profile composition, local-dev tax cancellation, CI-failure replay, profile promotion
V — taskplus + FlowEngine 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 Task model, built-in tasks, YAML grammar, info-passing contract, flow control, extension recipe
VI — Real-World Wiring 24, 25, 26, 27 CI-vendor shim, bridges to other volumes, case-study capstone, honest scoping

Part of The Code Craft AI Books.

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