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HoBo for Platform Engineers

You write Camps, Yards, and Junctions. Developers describe apps; you build the map those apps roam: which providers are approved, what a production environment looks like, how a provider’s camps are governed together, and how clouds federate.

Your artifacts

// Camps: environment shapes only — no bindle ownership, no provider pick
import { camp } from "hobo/camps";

export const prodEast = camp("prod-east", {
  envType: "prod",
  prefer: ["low-latency"],
  runtimeRequirements: ["runtime-local"],
  labels: { region: "us-east-1" },
});

export const staging = camp("staging", { envType: "staging" });
// Yard: provider selection lives here
import { yard } from "hobo/yards";
import { prodEast, staging } from "./camps";

export const awsYard = yard("aws-east", {
  provider: "aws",
  regions: ["us-east-1"],
  camps: [prodEast, staging],
});

// Junction: yards federated across clouds — peer to peer, no shared state
import { junction } from "hobo/junctions";
export default junction("acme", { yards: [awsYard, azureYard] });

What you own

  • The approved-provider set. Camp inference and Matching draw only from providers you’ve approved — the Dispatcher optimizes for price inside your fence.
  • Golden-path camps. Env templates for prod/staging/preview with requirements and labels already decided.
  • Yard-level governance. Provider pin, promotion rules between camps, shared identity, provider-global networking, drift posture (hobo drift), reconciliation cadence.
  • Junction federation. Which clouds peer, what connectivity is inferred, and which policy packs apply at each border. You also hold the broker-admin switch: leave camp inference on, or lock placement down to explicit, approved camps.
  • The self-hosting decision. The Yard control plane is itself a bindle — run HoBo’s control plane with the same tooling app teams use.

Your loop

hobo plan --camp prod-east   # dry-run any change before it lands
hobo verify                  # preflight the unified gate decision
hobo drift                   # report drift; route governed remediation
hobo up --camp prod-east     # converge when gates pass

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