Task Runner Overview
Available on: >= 0.16.0
Task Runner capabilities and supported plugins.
Task Runners Capabilities
Task Runners offer a powerful way to offload compute-intensive tasks to remote environments. The table below highlights their capabilities.
| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
| Fine-grained resource allocation | Task Runners give you full control over the compute resources — you can flexibly choose how much CPU, memory, or GPU you want to allocate to specific tasks. |
| Flexible deployment patterns | Task Runners support various deployment models, including AWS ECS Fargate, Azure Batch, Google Batch, Kubernetes, and more. You can mix and match different runners even within a single workflow. |
| No vendor lock-in | Task Runners are built on top of a plugin ecosystem, so you can run your code on any cloud provider or on-premises infrastructure without being locked to a specific vendor or deployment model. |
| Task isolation | Your tasks run in fully isolated container environments without interfering with each other or competing for resources. |
| Made for development and production | You can develop your code locally in Docker containers and run the same code in a production environment on a Kubernetes cluster. Thanks to task runners, setting this up is as simple as changing a single property. |
| Centralized configuration management | Task Runners make it easy to centrally govern your configuration. For example, you can use pluginDefaults on a namespace level to manage your task runner configuration and credentials in a single place. |
| Documentation and autocompletion | Each task runner is a plugin with its own schema. The built-in code editor provides documentation, autocompletion and syntax validation for all runner properties to ensure correctness, standardization and consistency. |
| No changes to your code | You can run the same business logic in different environments without changing anything in your code. |
| Fully customizable | If you need more customization, you can create your own Task Runner plugin to match your specific deployment patterns. |
Plugins Supporting Task Runners
Task Runners are intended to be used in the tasks from the Script Plugin and its sub-plugins tasks, including:
Anytime you see a task that can execute a script or a series of commands, it's a script task that contains a taskRunner property.
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