Skip to content

feat(targetrollout): add targetRollout subject and queued/started/finished events - #328

Open
xibz wants to merge 3 commits into
cdevents:mainfrom
xibz:target-rollout
Open

xibz wants to merge 3 commits into
cdevents:mainfrom
xibz:target-rollout

Conversation

@xibz

@xibz xibz commented Aug 13, 2026

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor

Follow-up to #319 (deployment.queued/started/finished), per @afrittoli's review: landing deployment on its own first, with targetRollout proposed separately here now that there's a concrete use case and one open PR of implementation experience to point to.

What this adds

targetRollout — a specific destination within a deployment's environment (a region, canary slot, or named blue/green slot) — with the standard queued/started/finished lifecycle, a deploymentId back-reference to its parent deployment, and failureType on finished for per-destination failure detail.

Why this isn't a new execution model

The concern raised on #319 was that giving targetRollout its own independent lifecycle "encodes one execution model." But this is the same shape the spec already has for pipelineRun/taskRun: a parent orchestration entity fans out to child execution units, each with its own queued/started/finished. targetRollout under deployment is that same pattern, not a new one. A producer that genuinely fans a deployment out to multiple destinations already has to track per-destination timing to coordinate the rollout in the first place — this just gives that internal fact a standard external shape. A producer that deploys to exactly one destination, or that calls a single atomic multi-region API with no per-destination visibility, simply doesn't emit targetRollout — same as any other optional CDEvents subject.

targetRollout also gives environment a first-class inbound link to what was deployed into it — today the only way to find out what's running in an environment is to scan service events and filter on content.environment.id, a reference that points the wrong way for that query.

Depends on #319 — this diff will be just the targetRollout additions once that merges.

Submitter Checklist

As the author of this PR, please check off the items in this checklist:

xibz added 2 commits August 13, 2026 11:33
…events

Deployments today are only visible as a side effect of a service state
change (service.deployed/service.upgraded), with no way to observe the
orchestration act itself: when a rollout started, when it finished, or
how long it took. This adds deployment as its own subject with the
standard queued/started/finished lifecycle, giving DORA-style tooling
an explicit deployment-duration/outcome fact independent of the
resulting service entity.

service.deployed/service.upgraded are unchanged; whether to deprecate
them is a separate decision left for a follow-up once deployment.* has
implementation experience.

The original proposal also included a targetRollout subject to model
fan-out to multiple destinations within one deployment; that's split
into a separate follow-up PR pending more implementation experience.

Signed-off-by: xibz <bjp@apple.com>
…ished events

Follow-up to the deployment subject: targetRollout models a single
destination within a deployment's environment (a region, canary slot,
or named blue/green slot), giving environment a first-class inbound
link to what was rolled out into it, and giving consumers per-
destination outcome/failureType detail when a deployment fans out to
more than one target.

This mirrors the pipelineRun/taskRun split already in the spec: a
parent orchestration entity (deployment/pipelineRun) fans out to child
execution units (targetRollout/taskRun), each with the standard
queued/started/finished lifecycle.

Stacked on the deployment subject (see the deployment branch/PR) since
targetRollout's deploymentId reference and docs build on it.

Signed-off-by: xibz <bjp@apple.com>
Comment thread schemas/_defs/targetrollout.json Outdated
{
"$id": "cdevents/_defs/targetrollout",
"term": "TargetRollout",
"definition": "A TargetRollout is a specific destination within an environment to which a release unit may be deployed and made available. A TargetRollout is always contained within an environment. Multiple TargetRollouts may exist within a single environment.",

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

I'm confused here. I thought a TargetRollout was an activity that can be queued, started and finished . In here it is defined as a destination, which seems inconsistent. Can you clarify?

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor Author

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Good catch! The definition was wrong, not the model. A targetRollout is the activity: rolling a deployment out to one target within an environment. The destination itself is already captured by target and environment. I've reworded the definition, examples, and counterExamples accordingly (and moved "a canary slot" to counterExamples, since that's the place, not the rollout). I'd rather not rename to targetRolloutRun: unlike pipeline, there's no static "rollout" definition entity for the Run to distinguish from, "rollout", like "deployment", already names the act.

Comment on lines +109 to +114
"required": [
"name",
"target",
"environment",
"artifactId"
]

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

I was expecting the deploymentId to be required. Could you describe a use case where it would not be set?

Comment on lines +128 to +133
"required": [
"name",
"target",
"environment",
"artifactId",
"outcome"

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

NIT: this could be:

  "required": ["name", "target", "environment", "artifactId", "outcome"],
  "if":   { "properties": { "outcome": { "const": "failure" } } },
  "then": { "required": ["failureType"] },
  "else": { "not": { "required": ["failureType"] } }

to enforce that failureType must be there in case of failure and must not be there in case of success.
That said, we don't have that in other schemas, although it would be nice to add.

Comment thread conformance/targetrollout_started.json Outdated
"id": "test123"
},
"artifactId": "pkg:oci/myapp@sha256%3A0b31b1c02ff458ad9b7b81cbdf8f028bd54699fa151f221d1e8de6817db93427",
"deploymentId": "mySubject123"

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Shouldn't this be different from the subject.id? I think having the same value is confusing.

- Redefine targetRollout as the act of deploying a release unit to a
  single destination, not the destination itself. The destination is
  already identified by the target and environment fields, and the
  queued/started/finished lifecycle only makes sense for an activity.
  Examples and counterExamples updated to match.
- Make deploymentId required on queued/started/finished: a target
  rollout is always part of a deployment.
- Give the parent deployment a distinct id in the targetRollout
  conformance examples so it no longer reads as the subject itself.

Signed-off-by: xibz <bjp@apple.com>
@xibz
xibz requested a review from afrittoli October 13, 2026 17:13
@xibz

xibz commented Oct 13, 2026

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor Author

@afrittoli - thanks Andreaa! Can you take a look again?

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

2 participants