mazzle-starter VS cnab-spec

I take advantage of I/O being parallel in Python in my mazzle continuous integration pipeline tool. I'm not sharing mutable state.

I spin up a graph of python Threads and each joins others in a graph. This way we can run graphs in parallel. See this graph - the parts that look like this:

dependency -> {parallel1; parallel2; parallel3} -> postparallel

parallel1, parallel2, parallel3 can run in parallel in a separate python thread because the IO is parallel.

postparallel joins parallel1, parallel2, parallel3 and waits for them all to complete.

Where parallel1-3 is things like ansible, packer (slow), AMI builds, chef runs etc.

https://github.com/samsquire/mazzle-starter/blob/master/arch...

I use a tool I wrote to layer my infrastructure with layers called components and I configure it with a Graphviz file.

My tool, called mazzle (previously devops-pipeline) would run parts of the graph that can run in parallel in parallel. It can also run parts of the build on SSH workers. You bring up the workers at the beginning of the build.

Here's an example of a graph generated from graphviz file: https://github.com/samsquire/mazzle/blob/master/docs/archite...

This graph brings up a hashicorp vault server, Java application, bastion proxy etc.

here's the graphviz file: https://github.com/samsquire/mazzle-starter/blob/master/arch...

It describes the ordering of the infrastructure, the invocation of Ansible, packer, shell scripts to set up vault etc.

The idea is to be able to bring up a new environment by changing one parameter. There's a React GUI too.

https://devops-pipeline.com

CNAB

Similar to https://cnab.io/ then?

IMO Cloud native application bundle is what you are looking for: https://cnab.io/

have you looked at CNAB ? since it uses standard OCI compliance you can have your entire application bundle on Azure registry (azure registry is OCI 2 compliant registry) and you can get more information about how to do it using ORAS cli

Check https://cnab.io/ and https://porter.sh/

I'm closely tracking an effort by Microsoft that aims to do a lot of what you're describing since I find myself bridging between these tools and deploying stacks that span tools and roles. [CNAB](https://cnab.io/) and the front-running implementation, [Porter](https://porter.sh/), enable one-step infra deployments, packaged as a single OCI-compatible container, with any number of steps, using the best tools for each of those steps. Think of using aws-cli for some initialization step (create or verify presence of a state bucket), applying some terraform to create infra, and finishing with a helm chart to complete deployment of app components. Each stage in a bundle packages not only the code to run it but also the execution binary of the tool that runs it. The spec and porter are still a moving target but it's a promising space and a nice adjacent evolution of the current state of tooling.