Gator is a combination of a task runner and a logging system. Every job is managed by a wrapper layer that monitors its progress, resource usage, and captures the messages that it emits via STDOUT or STDERR. Execution is managed in a hierarchical structure, with jobs at the leaves reporting back to layers of parent processes.

NOTE This project is under development is not feature complete, nor has it been battle tested.

Gator has been developed using poetry for package management:

$> python3 -m pip install poetry
$> poetry install

Tasks to perform are specified in a custom YAML syntax, arranged into two distinct object types:

• !Job that describes a single task to perform;
• !JobGroup that describes a set of tasks to perform, also supporting layers of nested groups;
• !JobArray similar to a !JobGroup, but repeats the set of described tasks a specified number of times.

A simple specification may look like this:

!JobGroup
  id  : top
  jobs:
  # Nested layer
  - !JobGroup
      id  : inner
      jobs:
      - !Job
          id     : say_hi
          command: echo
          args   : ["hi"]
  # Arrayed job - waits for 'say_hi' to complete
  - !JobArray
      id     : counting
      on_pass:
        - say_hi
      repeats: 4
      jobs   :
      - !Job
          id     : echo_count
          command: echo
          args   : ["$GATOR_ARRAY_INDEX"]
  # Directly attached to root - waits for 'counting' to complete
  - !Job
      id     : say_bye
      on_pass:
        - counting
      command: echo
      args   : ["bye"]

To run a given job specification, use the Gator CLI:

$> python3 -m gator examples/job.yaml
[17:58:50] Starting Gator 🐊
           [INFO   ] Launching task: echo hey there you
           [INFO   ] Monitoring task
           [INFO   ] hey there you
           [INFO   ] Task completed with return code 0
           [INFO   ] Recorded 0 warnings and 0 errors

To run the hub:

$> poe hub

• Get hub working
• Pass artefacts between jobs and form artefact based dependencies
• Arbitrary metrics gathering - replace warning and error counts with a generalised mechanism that supports aggregation while summarising min, max, mean, sum, and count of metrics recorded
• Random number seeding
• Hooks
• Tool based log parsers
• Custom runners - currently everything is shell, perhaps support other things?
• Non-environment variable based parameters