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