Release Engine is a collection of open-source tools that provides the functionality necessary to continuously deploy packaged code from a development team’s continuous integration server of choice to all environments and automate certain business processes associated with the release of code.
The home of the Release Engines is on GitHub in the RHInception Organization.
Put very simply: the Release Engine is an orchestration tool (:ref:`re-core <re_core>`) that runs commands on purpose-built workers (:ref:`re-worker <re_worker>`). The commands to run (and where to run them) are defined in :ref:`playbooks <playbooks>` in YAML or JSON format.
Interaction with the engine happens via a REST interface (:ref:`re-rest <re_rest>`). Additional workers exist for the purposes of aggregating logs, as well as sending notifications over any preferred method (such as email, or IRC). A bare-minimal Release Engine installation would require re-rest, re-core, and any given re-worker.
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.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 :numbered: intro.rst Setting up <setup.rst> Components and Libraries <components.rst> Tutorial: Writing Workers <writing_workers.rst> development.rst messageformats.rst playbooks.rst worker-steps.rst appendices.rst license.rst