This is the Buildbot manual for Buildbot version 0.9.8.

2. Buildbot Manual

• 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.1.1. History and Philosophy
  • 2.1.2. System Architecture
  • 2.1.3. Control Flow
• 2.2. Installation
  • 2.2.1. Buildbot Components
  • 2.2.2. Requirements
  • 2.2.3. Installing the code
  • 2.2.4. Upgrading to Nine
  • 2.2.5. Buildmaster Setup
  • 2.2.6. Worker Setup
  • 2.2.7. Next Steps
• 2.3. Concepts
  • 2.3.1. Source Stamps
  • 2.3.2. Version Control Systems
  • 2.3.3. Changes
  • 2.3.4. Scheduling Builds
  • 2.3.5. BuildSets
  • 2.3.6. BuildRequests
  • 2.3.7. Builders
  • 2.3.8. Build Factories
  • 2.3.9. Workers
  • 2.3.10. Builds
  • 2.3.11. Users
  • 2.3.12. Build Properties
  • 2.3.13. Multiple-Codebase Builds
  • 2.3.14. Multimaster
• 2.4. Secret Management
  • 2.4.1. Requirements
  • 2.4.2. How to use Buildbot Secret Management
• 2.5. Configuration
  • 2.5.1. Configuring Buildbot
  • 2.5.2. Global Configuration
  • 2.5.3. Change Sources
  • 2.5.4. Schedulers
  • 2.5.5. Workers
  • 2.5.6. Builder Configuration
  • 2.5.7. Build Factories
  • 2.5.8. Properties
  • 2.5.9. Build Steps
  • 2.5.10. Interlocks
  • 2.5.11. Reporters
  • 2.5.12. Web Server
  • 2.5.13. Change Hooks
  • 2.5.14. Custom Services
  • 2.5.15. DbConfig
  • 2.5.16. Configurators
• 2.6. Transition to “worker” terminology
  • 2.6.1. Old names fallback settings
  • 2.6.2. Changed API
  • 2.6.3. Plugins
  • 2.6.4. BuildmasterConfig changes
  • 2.6.5. Docker latent worker changes
  • 2.6.6. EC2 latent worker changes
  • 2.6.7. steps.slave.SetPropertiesFromEnv changes
  • 2.6.8. Local worker changes
  • 2.6.9. Worker Manager changes
  • 2.6.10. Properties
  • 2.6.11. Metrics
  • 2.6.12. Database
  • 2.6.13. usePTY changes
  • 2.6.14. buildbot-worker
• 2.7. Customization
  • 2.7.1. Programmatic Configuration Generation
  • 2.7.2. Collapse Request Functions
  • 2.7.3. Builder Priority Functions
  • 2.7.4. Build Priority Functions
  • 2.7.5. canStartBuild Functions
  • 2.7.6. Customizing SVNPoller
  • 2.7.7. Writing Change Sources
  • 2.7.8. Writing a New Latent Worker Implementation
  • 2.7.9. Custom Build Classes
  • 2.7.10. Factory Workdir Functions
  • 2.7.11. Writing New BuildSteps
  • 2.7.12. Writing Dashboards with Flask or Bottle
  • 2.7.13. A Somewhat Whimsical Example (or “It’s now customized, how do I deploy it?”)
• 2.8. New-Style Build Steps
  • 2.8.1. Summary of Changes
  • 2.8.2. Backward Compatibility
  • 2.8.3. Rewriting start
  • 2.8.4. Newly Asynchronous Methods
  • 2.8.5. Properties
  • 2.8.6. Log Objects
  • 2.8.7. Status Strings
  • 2.8.8. Statistics
• 2.9. Command-line Tool
  • 2.9.1. buildbot
  • 2.9.2. worker
• 2.10. Resources
• 2.11. Optimization
  • 2.11.1. Properties load speedup
• 2.12. Plugin Infrastructure in Buildbot
  • 2.12.1. Finding Plugins
  • 2.12.2. Developing Plugins
  • 2.12.3. Plugins of note
• 2.13. Deployment
  • 2.13.1. Using A Database Server
  • 2.13.2. Maintenance
  • 2.13.3. Troubleshooting