gaiapipeline/gaia repository overview

gaia is an open source automation platform which makes it easy and fun to build powerful pipelines in any programming language. Based on HashiCorp's go-plugin and gRPC, gaia is efficient, fast, lightweight and developer friendly. Gaia is currently alpha! Do not use it for mission critical jobs yet!

Develop pipelines with the help of SDKs (currently only Go) and simply check-in your code into a git repository. Gaia automatically clones your code repository, compiles your code to a binary and executes it on-demand. All results are streamed back and formatted to a user-friendly graphical output.

Motivation Automation Engineer, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer - they all have one in common: The majority of tech people are not motivated to take up this work and they are hard to recruit.

One of the main reasons for this is the abstraction and poor execution of many automation tools. They come with their own configuration (YAML syntax) specification or limit the user to one specific programming language. Testing is nearly impossible because most automation tools lack the ability to mock services and subsystems. Even tiny things, for example parsing a JSON file, are sometimes really painful because external, outdated libraries were used and not included in the standard framework.

We believe it's time to remove all these abstractions and come back to our roots. Are you tired of writing endless lines of YAML-code? Are you sick of spending days forced to write in a language that does not suit you and is not fun at all? Do you enjoy programming in a language you like? Then gaia is for you.

Installation The installation of gaia is simple and often takes a few minutes.

Using docker The following command starts gaia as a daemon process and mounts all data to the current folder. Afterwards, gaia will be available on the host system on port 8080. Use the standard user admin and password admin as initial login. It is recommended to change the password afterwards.

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -v $PWD:/data gaiapipeline/gaia:latest