Concepts and architecture

This chapter walks you through the high-level concepts in Testground. Each section covers a different component or subsystem of Testground.

To help you situate yourself, this architecture diagram provides a bird's-eye view of the system, emphasizing the circuitry of the observability pipeline:

Read on to learn more about the individual components:

• Test plans and test cases
• Daemon and client
• Synchronization service
• Networking
• Sidecar
• Builders
• Runners
• Runtime environment (runenv)
• Client-Server communication