Developer Guide

In this section, you will find a description of the source code in osbuild organization.

The following scheme describes how separate components communicate with each other:

In the very basic use case where osbuild-composer is running locally, the "pool of workers" also lives on the user's host machine. The osbuild-composer and osbuild-worker processes are spawned by systemd. We don't support any other means of spawning these processes, as they rely on systemd to open sockets, create state directories etc. Additionally, osbuild-worker spawns osbuild as a subprocess to create the image itself. The whole image building machinery is spawned from a user process, for example, composer-cli.