Glossary#

Attribute#: A property of a task that is used internally by Taskgraph and not part of the definition. For example, attributes typically control how a task is filtered in the target_task phase.
Decision task#: The decision task is the first task created when a new graph begins. It is responsible for creating the rest of the task graph.
Kind#: Tasks of the same kind have substantial similarities or share common processing logic and are grouped together in a kind.yml file. See Kinds for more information.
Label#: A string identifier representing a task. Usually starts with the name of the kind.
Loader#: Parses each of the kinds, applies logic in the transforms, and determines the order in which to create and schedule tasks. See Loading Tasks for more information
Optimization#: One of the phases of graph generation. The process of removing unnecessary tasks or replacing them with tasks that already ran earlier.
Parameters#: A set of runtime values passed into the Decision task that define the context the graph is being generated in. For instance, parameters can be used to specify whether the generation is for a pull request or a push. See Parameters for a list of supported parameters.
Role#: An alias for a set of scopes. Roles consist of a name, description and a list of scopes. Granting something the special scope assume:<role> grants access to all scopes defined within that role.
Scope#: Taskcluster permission required to perform a particular action. Each task has a set of these permissions determining what it can do.
Scriptworker#: Scripts controlled by Release Engineering that perform certain actions required to complete a kind task, such as signing binaries to pushing packages to the Google Play store or to Mozilla archives.
Task#: Code containing repository data and commands to run, called the task definition, that is submitted to Taskcluster for execution.
Transform#: Applies logic to the kind tasks in response to task attributes. This can involve things like executing a script in response to certain attribute values in a kind file, or creating a payload to submit to a scriptworker to perform a specific action. See Transforms for more information.
Trust Domain#: Trust domains are a concept frequently used in the Firefox-CI cluster. They act as a prefix for scopes, routes and worker pools and roughly correspond to a project or group of related projects. Trust domains ensure that a task from one project isn’t accidentally granted scopes to another. This reduces the attack surface should the task get compromised. The more granular the trust domain, the more secure it is. But granular trust domains are also harder to maintain.