What is Socrates?

A Simple Automation Server

Socrates is a simple automation server, inspired by Jenkins. It can run tasks in any code language and present them in a friendly dashboard to non-technical users.

Quickstart

For Evaluation and Testing:

1. Download the docker-compose.yaml file from the root of the repository.

2. Run docker-compose up and wait until all components are healthy.

Features

• Define Parameterized Blocks of code in any language to be run in Docker.

• Define Static and Dynamic parameters to be used by all Blocks.

• Create Instances of code that can be run individually.

• Create Steps and DAG Flows using Instances of code.

• Save Artifacts and Outputs, managed by Minio S3.

• Schedule any component and view it in a timeline.

• Connect a Github repository with or without a Webhook, automatically update all the code in the server.

• Manage a friendly Developer Portal, give your jobs custom names and folders.

• Can be run on Docker or on Kubernetes

Components

Socrates's main components are the basic terms that define how to work with the server.

Component	Description
Block	A Block is a component made of a Code in a specific Language. It might have parameters, defaults, and a Pre-Code in Shell to execute before the main. It may also be directly attached to a file in Github.
Instance	An Instance is attached to a Block. It is essentially a Parameterized Block, with its own execution History. Multiple Instance can exist for the same Block. It can be run individually, inside a Flow or be scheduled.
Steps Flow	Steps Flow is a pipeline of one or more Instances arranged in Steps. They share ENV Variables (parameters) and Outputs to the next Steps. It has its own execution history and can be drilled down to individual Instances.
DAG Flow	DAG Flow is a pipeline of one or more Instances arranged in a Graph. They share ENV Variables (parameters), and pass Outputs to the next Nodes in the Branch. It has its own execution history and can be drilled down to individual Instances.
Parameters	Each Block and its Instance have "parameters" which always include defaults. These are basically translated as Strings (Environment Variables) inside the execution of any code language in its virtual machine. Parameters can also be Dynamic.

License

Apache 2.0