Build Pipeline

Every build in Rogue Architect progresses through 6 sequential phases. You can see these phases in the Build Pipeline Strip at the bottom of the canvas — click any phase dot to learn what’s happening at that stage.

Phase 1: Clone Infrastructure

The system clones the infrastructure VMs that power your build environment:

Ansible Control Node — Runs the Ansible playbooks that install plugins on your VMs
Network Router — Manages routing between your VLANs
APT Mirror — Local package mirror for faster installations
File Share — Hosts vault files that get copied to machines

These infrastructure machines are created automatically — you don’t need to configure them.

Phase 2: Clone VMs

All of your scenario VMs are cloned from their base templates. Each machine on your canvas becomes a real virtual machine.

Phase 3: Start Infrastructure

The infrastructure VMs power on and initialize. The system waits for each one to report readiness before proceeding.

Phase 4: Start VMs

Your scenario VMs power on and boot up.

Phase 5: Build Steps

This is the main build phase. The system executes your plugins in order:

PRE items run first (internal setup tasks)
Your plugins execute in the order you defined in each machine’s build sequence

During this phase you have access to:

Live VM Access — Open and interact with your VMs while plugins run
Build Logs — Watch Ansible output in real time
Redeploy — If something goes wrong, revert to a checkpoint and try again
Rogue Oracle — The AI assistant switches to build mode to help debug issues

Automatic snapshots are taken at the interval you configured (default: every 10 minutes), giving you restore points throughout the build.

Phase 6: Complete

All plugins have executed. Your VMs are built and ready for testing. From here you can:

Open VMs to manually verify they’re configured correctly
Use Redeploy to make adjustments if anything needs fixing
Move on to Templatize to save your build as a reusable template