Shep is an Ansible-like orchestration engine implemented in Go. It focuses on a plugin-forward architecture for process-isolated extensions and FlatBuffers for efficient, cross-language RPC payloads.

Primary goals:

• Provide a lightweight, extensible runtime for running tasks and playbooks across hosts.
• Use sub-process plugin architecture to allow plugins in multiple languages while keeping the core in Go.
• Use FlatBuffers for RPC payload schemas to ensure compact, forward/backward-compatible messages and fast (de)serialization.

completed so far

• sub-process style plugins communicate over stdin/stdout
• flatbuffer plugin handshake
• parsing of inventory in yaml (no ini) to flatbuffer domain model
• parsing of playbook and tasks to flatbuffer domain model
• go table tests for parsing of inventory, playbook, task

design prompts (slop, it's all slop)

• architecture guide
• shep-orchestration.md
• shep-plugin-inventory-plan.md
• shep-plugin-modeling.md
• shep-plugin-playbook-plan.md
• shep-plugin-tasks-plan.md
• test-update.md

cov

• coverage.html
• host.html
• inventory.html
• logger.html
• playbook.html
• protocol.html
• Development Guide