Building a Blazing Fast CI Engine in Rust (That Dogfoods Itself!) 🦀⚡

Source: Dev.to

Why Another CI? 🤔

Let’s face it: CI/CD can be painful. Slow feedback loops, “works on my machine” but fails on CI, and opaque YAML configurations are the industry standard.

I wanted something different—a CI system that:

• Runs locally exactly like it runs remotely.
• Is fast (written in Rust + Tokio).
• Is extensible (Wasm + native plugins).
• Looks epic (because developer experience matters!).

Introducing Oxide CI

Oxide CI is a high‑performance, distributed CI/CD engine designed to solve the complexity of modern pipelines. It’s not just a runner; it’s a complete orchestration system you can run on your laptop.

• ⚡ Blazing Fast – Built on the Tokio async runtime, utilizing every core you have.
• 🐶 Local Dogfooding – It builds itself! The .oxide-ci/pipeline.yaml in the repo manages the project’s own build, test, and release cycle.
• 🔌 Plugin System – Drop‑in compatibility with GitHub Actions via a native plugin layer, plus support for WASM plugins for sandboxed execution.
• 🛠️ Developer Experience – The CLI renders a high‑definition logo directly in your terminal (using chafa).

Installation

# Clone and install
git clone https://github.com/copyleftdev/oxide-ci
cd oxide-ci
cargo install --path crates/oxide-cli

Run the Dogfood Pipeline

oxide run .oxide-ci/pipeline.yaml

Project Status & Links

• Version: Early Alpha (v0.1.0) – Open Source
• GitHub: https://github.com/copyleftdev/oxide-ci
• Documentation: https://github.com/copyleftdev/oxide-ci/wiki

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Happy coding! 🦀