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This is the Buildbot manual for Buildbot version 1.8.1.

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. Buildmaster Setup
  • 2.2.5. Worker Setup
  • 2.2.6. 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 and Changes
  • 2.5.4. Changes
  • 2.5.5. Schedulers
  • 2.5.6. Workers
  • 2.5.7. Builder Configuration
  • 2.5.8. Build Factories
  • 2.5.9. Properties
  • 2.5.10. Build Steps
  • 2.5.11. Interlocks
  • 2.5.12. Reporters
  • 2.5.13. Web Server
  • 2.5.14. Change Hooks
  • 2.5.15. Custom Services
  • 2.5.16. DbConfig
  • 2.5.17. Configurators
• 2.6. Customization
  • 2.6.1. Programmatic Configuration Generation
  • 2.6.2. Collapse Request Functions
  • 2.6.3. Builder Priority Functions
  • 2.6.4. Build Priority Functions
  • 2.6.5. canStartBuild Functions
  • 2.6.6. Customizing SVNPoller
  • 2.6.7. Writing Change Sources
  • 2.6.8. Writing a New Latent Worker Implementation
  • 2.6.9. Custom Build Classes
  • 2.6.10. Factory Workdir Functions
  • 2.6.11. Writing New BuildSteps
  • 2.6.12. Writing Dashboards with Flask or Bottle
  • 2.6.13. A Somewhat Whimsical Example (or “It’s now customized, how do I deploy it?”)
• 2.7. Command-line Tool
  • 2.7.1. buildbot
  • 2.7.2. worker
• 2.8. Resources
• 2.9. Optimization
  • 2.9.1. Properties load speedup
• 2.10. Plugin Infrastructure in Buildbot
  • 2.10.1. Finding Plugins
  • 2.10.2. Developing Plugins
  • 2.10.3. Plugins of note
• 2.11. Deployment
  • 2.11.1. Using A Database Server
  • 2.11.2. Maintenance
  • 2.11.3. Troubleshooting
• 2.12. Upgrading
  • 2.12.1. Upgrading to Nine
  • 2.12.2. New-Style Build Steps
  • 2.12.3. Transition to “worker” terminology