💤 zzzz – automate with your eyes closed

zzzz is a framework to build user friendly software automation.

See:

• MOTIVATION.md for the motivation to create this framework.
• Operations UX for a book about the dimensions considered during zzzz's design and development.

Guiding Principles

• A joy to use.
• Ergonomic API and guidance to do the right thing.
• Understandable output.

Features

• ⚫ Workflow graph with task dependencies
• ⚫ Concurrent task execution
• ⚫ Understandable error reporting
• ⚫ Skip unnecessary work
• ⚫ Understandable progress
• ⚫ Actionable error messages
• ⚫ Namespaced working directory
• ⚫ Resource clean up
• ⚫ Dry run
• ⚫ zzzz binary for configuration based workflows
• ⚫ Off-the-shelf support for common tasks
• ⚫ Web based UI
• ⚫ Agent mode to run zzzz on servers (Web API invocation)

Ideas which may be considered:

• Back up current state
• Restore previous state
• Telemetry logging for monitoring
• Metrics collection for analysis

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.