Forge Orchestration

Rust-Native Orchestration Platform for Distributed Workloads

A high-performance orchestration platform for Rust, designed to manage distributed workloads at hyper-scale. 10-2000x faster scheduling than Kubernetes with intelligent bin-packing for optimal resource utilization.

Performance Benchmarks

K8s baseline from Kubernetes Scheduling Framework documentation

Key Performance Innovations

• Lock-free parallel scoring with Rayon for concurrent node evaluation
• Pre-computed score caches for O(1) node lookups
• Integer-only scoring - no floating point in hot paths
• Batch scheduling for amortized overhead (up to 1M decisions/sec)
• First-Fit Decreasing bin-packing for optimal utilization

Features

Installation

[dependencies]

forge-orchestration = "0.4.0"

tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }

Quick Start

Control Plane

use forge_orchestration::{ForgeBuilder, AutoscalerConfig, Job, Task, Driver};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> forge_orchestration::Result<()> {
    // Build the orchestrator
    let forge = ForgeBuilder::new()
        .with_autoscaler(AutoscalerConfig::default()
            .upscale_threshold(0.8)
            .downscale_threshold(0.3))
        .build()?;

    // Define and submit a job
    let job = Job::new("my-service")
        .with_group("api", Task::new("server")
            .driver(Driver::Exec)
            .command("/usr/bin/server")
            .args(vec!["--port", "8080"])
            .resources(500, 256));

    forge.submit_job(job).await?;

    // Run the control plane
    forge.run().await?;
    Ok(())
}

Workload SDK

The SDK is included in the main crate under forge_orchestration::sdk:

use forge_orchestration::sdk::{ready, allocate_port, graceful_shutdown, shutdown_signal};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> forge_orchestration::Result<()> {
    // Signal readiness to orchestrator
    ready()?;

    // Allocate a port dynamically
    let port = allocate_port(8000..9000)?;
    println!("Listening on port {}", port);

    // Install graceful shutdown handlers
    graceful_shutdown();

    // ... your server logic ...

    // Wait for shutdown signal
    shutdown_signal().await;
    Ok(())
}

Architecture

[User App] --> [Forge SDK] (ready(), allocate(), shutdown())
              |
              v
[Forge Control Plane]
  - Tokio Runtime (async loops)
  - Rayon (parallel alloc)
  - Raft (consensus)
  - State: RocksDB (local) + etcd (distributed)
  - MoE Router (gating to experts)
  |
  v
[Nomad Scheduler] (jobs: containers/binaries)
  |
  v
[Workers/Nodes]
  - QUIC/TLS Networking
  - Prometheus Metrics

API Reference

Modules

MoE Routing

Built-in routers:

• DefaultMoERouter: Hash-based consistent routing
• LoadAwareMoERouter: Routes to least-loaded expert with affinity
• RoundRobinMoERouter: Sequential distribution

Custom router:

use forge_orchestration::moe::{MoERouter, RouteResult};
use async_trait::async_trait;

struct MyRouter;

#[async_trait]
impl MoERouter for MyRouter {
    async fn route(&self, input: &str, num_experts: usize) -> RouteResult {
        RouteResult::new(input.len() % num_experts)
    }
    fn name(&self) -> &str { "my-router" }
}

Autoscaling

use forge_orchestration::AutoscalerConfig;

let config = AutoscalerConfig::default()
    .upscale_threshold(0.8)
    .downscale_threshold(0.3)
    .hysteresis_secs(300)
    .bounds(1, 100);

Storage

use forge_orchestration::storage::{MemoryStore, FileStore};

let memory = MemoryStore::new();
let file = FileStore::open("/var/lib/forge/state.json")?;

Metrics

use forge_orchestration::ForgeMetrics;

let metrics = ForgeMetrics::new()?;
metrics.record_job_submitted();
metrics.record_scale_event("my-job", "up");
let text = metrics.gather_text()?;

SDK Functions

Environment Variables

Builder Configuration

use forge_orchestration::ForgeBuilder;

ForgeBuilder::new()
    .with_nomad_api("http://localhost:4646")
    .with_nomad_token("secret-token")
    .with_store_path("/var/lib/forge/state.json")
    .with_node_name("forge-1")
    .with_datacenter("dc1")
    .with_autoscaler(AutoscalerConfig::default())
    .with_metrics(true)
    .build()?

License

Apache 2.0