nopaque/docs/platform_basics_brainstorming_2019-04-17.md

Manager Service:

• Joblist
  • Thread safe
  • REST API (https://github.com/zalando/connexion)
    • CreateNewJob
    • DelteJobs
    • GetJobInfo
    • AlterJob
  • Scheduling
  • Ressource management
• manages also files on file server

Web Server

• serves content.
• serves forms for user request and inputs
• has copy of Joblist to display those for the user according to requests etc.
• talks to the Manager service
• Users CANNOT talk directly with the manager
• has list of all currently running user sessions (maybe used for authentication)

Authentication via LDAP (not sure if we need that)

• university internal authentication with LDAP
• LDAP and connexion can use (OAuth 2)
  • https://ldapwiki.com/wiki/Best%20Practices%20for%20LDAP%20Security
  • https://connexion.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security.html?highlight=authentication
• university external authentication with something else

Compute pool: Docker Cluster

• How to handle job and resource management for user Jobs and processes.
• gets requests and tasks from the manager

File Server

• stores user input and
• output files
• Maybe WebDAV

Database

• document based data base like mongoDB preferred