Taskcluster
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Taskcluster, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
The facts
Each one read from Taskcluster's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access control
- API method access is controlled through granular scopes that support delegation patterns.checked 8 Oct 2026
- API
- Platform access is through REST API methods, with client libraries for multiple languages.checked 8 Oct 2026
- GitHub integration
- The homepage says Taskcluster can create tasks for GitHub pushes, pull requests, and tags, and report results through GitHub checks.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Interactive debugging
- Users can access running workers through a browser using interactive shell, VNC, or RDP sessions.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Mozilla use
- The framework supports Mozilla’s continuous integration and release processes.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Operating systems
- The homepage says Mozilla runs workers on Linux, macOS, Windows variants, and mobile devices.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Taskcluster is an open-source task execution framework for building customized continuous integration and release processes.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Scale
- The homepage says Mozilla's Firefox CI deployment routinely runs over 7,000,000 tasks per month and can handle 350,000 concurrent tasks.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Scale and customization
- The site describes Taskcluster as flexible and scalable for complex CI workflows.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Scheduling
- Scheduled tasks can run at specific times or days for jobs such as nightly builds and periodic maintenance.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Security reporting
- The repository directs external vulnerability reports to Mozilla’s HackerOne program.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support and community
- The homepage invites users to contact the Taskcluster team by email at [email protected] or in the #taskcluster:mozilla.org chat room.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Task graphs
- Tasks can be organized into dependency graphs, such as tests depending on build tasks.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Worker infrastructure
- Workers can run on cloud instances or a user's own hardware, and the homepage lists AWS, GCP, Azure, packet.net, bitbar, and datacenter hardware as supported options.checked 8 Oct 2026
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