The firfather project is a CI/CD system for creating serotinous cones.
A firfather server is intended to use Alpine Linux, but could be adapted to another linux distribution.
Firfather can be deployed to an "edge" machine on-prem that orchestrates across the internet, or deployed to a cloud service provider, etc etc. Disk space is the most important system resource for firfather, but it does not require many resources. A single vCore and 500MB of RAM can work.
Firfather is made of many components but has five software systems that work together within the project:
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arrival, a packaging system for making APK (Alpine Package Keeper) packages for subcomponents of serotinous-cone - 🏔️
winter, an enforcement controller daemon - 🌱
cone, a continous deployment system in a function that can be a scheduled job - 🕸️
hadronyche, a continuous integration system - 🕷️
mygalomorphae, a utility API for firfather observability and control
Within those components we find kube-rs, actix-web, Open Tofu, Ansible, and much more.
In addition to the five main components within firfather, there are also support scripts for installation of a new firfather server.
A CLI program that makes apk, essentialy a rusted shell wrapper for alpine-sdk.
A daemonized and detached kuberenetes and SSH controller that enforces the state, performing deployment and recovery actions if cones are unhealthy.
Winter reads the list of cones to check on from the winter.toml file loaded at program start. If new cones are added,
the winter.toml needs to be updated and winter restarted. While the winter.toml can be made manually, it can
have new addresses added by Cone.
A function that builds a new serotinous cone.
hydronyche - (biology) a genus of venomous Australian funnel web spiders
Hydronyche is a very specific CI system for serotinous cones that includes HTML reports, SBOMs, and tests.
mygalomorphae - (biology) an infraorder of many species of trap door spiders
Mygalomorphae is built from morpho-sessions (Actix-based) web API for collecting information on firfather.