How to create a new Leapp actor

Question

I want to add my own actor to the Leapp workflow, however I’m confused about the relationship of actors, models and workflows objects defined by the Leapp framework.

Answer 1

According to the Leapp documentation https://leapp.readthedocs.io:

Actor is a step that is executed within a workflow. Actors define what kind of data they expect, and what they produce.

Models are the definition of the data model used in message payloads. A message is produced by an actor, and the payload follows the definition of the model it is named after.

Workflow describe what work is going to be done and when. It describes a sequence of phases, where one phase has assigned filters with which the framework selects actors that should be executed from the repositories on the system.

For more info about various workflow objects (like phase, repository, stage, tag, and topic) please visit https://leapp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/terminology.html

For in-depth tutorial about creating your own Leapp actor (along with installing all the necessary dependencies for development) please visit https://leapp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials.html.