Orchestration

Kind: mechanism

Layer: Execution Core

Record: architecture:orchestration

Severity: contextual

Scope: workflow, deployment, services

Canonical: Ontology

A mechanism that runs a multi-step workflow from one coordinator, which calls each step in order and tracks its outcome.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Control Plane and before Centralized Configuration.

Requires

• Coordinator

Reinforces

• Control Plane
• Saga Pattern

Enables

• Ordered Multi-Step Execution

Conflicts with

• Pure Choreography

In tension with

• Centralized Coordinator Coupling

Tensions

• Orchestration / Centralized Coordinator Coupling

Contracts

• Workflow Creation Kernel

Violated by

• Pure Choreography

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Control / Coordination / Centralization

Linked from

• Orchestration as declared structure
• Every record has a kind
• Above one tier, reduction
• Control / Coordination / Centralization
• Event / Messaging / Asynchronous Architecture
• Control / Coordination / Centralization
• Agent workflow
• Severity levels
• The resolutions

in this codebase

• stagesFor
• runStages