Techniques for building a data center using a skills service

A computing device operating as part of a cloud-computing service, the computing device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more memories storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
• maintain a registry comprising a plurality of skills corresponding to a plurality of services to be potentially bootstrapped by an orchestrator while building a data center, the registry maintaining skill metadata corresponding to the plurality of skills, the skill metadata maintained by the registry specifying a plurality of dependencies between the plurality of services;
• obtain a specification or a graph identifying a build process corresponding to at least one service of the plurality of services, the build process being expressed with a set of skills and a set of dependencies that are associated with the set of skills;
• and
• validate the build process based at least in part on determining that the set of dependencies expressed in the specification or the graph conforms to the plurality of dependencies maintained by the registry, subsequent execution of the build process being dependent on the validation.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

• maintain a registry comprising a plurality of skills corresponding to a plurality of services to be potentially bootstrapped by an orchestrator while building a data center, the registry maintaining skill metadata corresponding to the plurality of skills, the skill metadata maintained by the registry specifying a plurality of dependencies between the plurality of services;
• obtain a specification or a graph identifying a build process corresponding to at least one service of the plurality of services, the build process being expressed with a set of skills and a set of dependencies that are associated with the set of skills;
• and
• validate the build process based at least in part on determining that the set of dependencies expressed in the specification or the graph conforms to the plurality of dependencies maintained by the registry, subsequent execution of the build process being dependent on the validation.