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Pipeline

Learn about the concept of a pipeline, which is a primitive responsible for reading data from a specified source, transforming it according to the pipeline specification, and writing the result to an output repo.

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A pipeline is a Pachyderm primitive responsible for reading data from a specified source, such as a Pachyderm repo, transforming it according to the pipeline specification, and writing the result to an output repo.

Pipelines subscribe to a branch in one or more input repositories, and every time the branch has a new commit, the pipeline executes a job that runs user code to completion and writes the results to a commit in the output repository.

Pipelines are defined declaratively using a JSON or YAML file (the pipeline specification), which must include the name, input, and transform parameters at a minimum. Pipelines can be chained together to create a directed acyclic graph (DAG).