Monitoring Progress
Rogue Architect provides multiple views into your build’s progress, from high-level overviews to per-plugin detail.
Bottom Progress Bar
Section titled “Bottom Progress Bar”The primary build monitoring surface is the progress bar pinned to the bottom of the canvas. It shows:
- Progress counter — Completed plays out of total plays (e.g., “12/45 plays”)
- Tasks remaining — How many Ansible tasks are left
- Elapsed time — How long the build has been running
- Status badge — Current build state with a color indicator
- Snapshot checkpoints — Gold markers along the progress bar showing where snapshots were taken
Status Badge
Section titled “Status Badge”The status badge in the bottom bar shows your build’s current state:
| Status | Indicator | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Building | Pulsing teal | Plugins are executing |
| Snapshotting | Pulsing gold | Taking a VM snapshot |
| Syncing Files | Pulsing blue | Vault files syncing to Ansible |
| Error | Static red | Build encountered an error |
| Complete | Static green | All plugins executed successfully |
Expanded View
Section titled “Expanded View”Click the expand arrow on the progress bar to reveal a detailed dashboard showing:
- Build Pipeline Strip — The 6-phase progress indicator
- Deployment Tasks — Current play and task details with a progress bar
- Build Configuration — Your selected options (Continue on Error, Verbose Logs, Snapshot Interval)
- Activity Feed — Scrollable feed of completed and errored plays with machine names and run times
Infrastructure Cards
Section titled “Infrastructure Cards”Floating cards at the top-left of the canvas show the status of infrastructure machines (router, file share, etc.). Each card displays:
- Machine name
- Status light (booting, ready, etc.)
- Number of plugins remaining
These are the behind-the-scenes machines that support your build — you don’t need to interact with them directly.
Machine Inspection
Section titled “Machine Inspection”Click any machine node on the canvas during a build to open the Machine Build Progress panel. This shows:
- A list of all plugins assigned to that machine
- Per-plugin status: not installed → installing (pulsing) → installed (green) or errored (red)
- Click the log button on any plugin to see its Ansible output
This is the most granular view available — you can watch each plugin’s progress and immediately see which ones succeed or fail.