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* [[Accounting#Accounting Enabling Layer | Accounting Enabling layer]]
 
* [[Accounting#Accounting Enabling Layer | Accounting Enabling layer]]
 
* [[Accounting#Accounting Backend Layer | Accounting Backend layer]]
 
* [[Accounting#Accounting Backend Layer | Accounting Backend layer]]
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Moreover we have the storage layer which is not a gCube component in terms of development.
 
* [[Accounting#Accounting Storage Layer | Accounting Storage layer]]
 
* [[Accounting#Accounting Storage Layer | Accounting Storage layer]]
  
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* accounting-aggregator
 
* accounting-aggregator
  
Each enabling layer has its own correspondent backend implementation. Each backend implementation must be dynamically discovered at runtime. This allow to decouple the deployment of a different backend from the development of enabling layer. In other word each component on the enabling layer MUST NOT any dependency over a certain backed implementation. Furthermore, MUST NOT be any component in the infrastructure which depends by a specific backend library.  
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The designed architecture and the implementation has to respect the following rules:
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* Each enabling layer has its own correspondent backend implementation.  
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* Each backend implementation must be dynamically discovered at runtime. This allow to decouple the deployment of a different backend from the development of the enabling layer. In other word each component on the enabling layer MUST NOT have any dependency over a certain backed implementation.
  
 
The only entitled software which can have a dependency against the backend component are the ones that allow to deploy and distribute a consistent infrastructure:  
 
The only entitled software which can have a dependency against the backend component are the ones that allow to deploy and distribute a consistent infrastructure:  
 
* bundles (e.g. smartgear-bundle, portal-bundle)
 
* bundles (e.g. smartgear-bundle, portal-bundle)
 
* provisioning script
 
* provisioning script
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=== Accounting Storage Layer ===
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This layer is not developed by gCube but the selected technology has to be selected to provide [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability HA (High Availability)].
  
  
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In this layer we found not only the accounting consumer which retrieve information related to collected data (e.g. Accounting Manager Portlet) but also all the component which collect data and use accounting-lib to persist in a common pattern.
 
In this layer we found not only the accounting consumer which retrieve information related to collected data (e.g. Accounting Manager Portlet) but also all the component which collect data and use accounting-lib to persist in a common pattern.
 
=== Accounting Storage Layer ===
 
 
This layer ..
 

Revision as of 15:57, 16 November 2015

GCube Accounting allows to collect information of the infrastructure usage and expose them for the interested consumer.

Architecture

The following picture shows the gCube Accounting architeture

Accounting-architecture.png

The Accounting Architecture has been logically divided in three different layers.

Moreover we have the storage layer which is not a gCube component in terms of development.

All the developed component must respect this paradigm.


Accounting Enabling Layer

  • accounting-lib
  • accounting-analytics
  • accounting-aggregator

The designed architecture and the implementation has to respect the following rules:

  • Each enabling layer has its own correspondent backend implementation.
  • Each backend implementation must be dynamically discovered at runtime. This allow to decouple the deployment of a different backend from the development of the enabling layer. In other word each component on the enabling layer MUST NOT have any dependency over a certain backed implementation.

The only entitled software which can have a dependency against the backend component are the ones that allow to deploy and distribute a consistent infrastructure:

  • bundles (e.g. smartgear-bundle, portal-bundle)
  • provisioning script


Accounting Storage Layer

This layer is not developed by gCube but the selected technology has to be selected to provide HA (High Availability).


Accounting Backend Layer

The actual backend is CouchDB

  • accounting-lib-persistence-BACKEND (i.e. accounting-lib-persistence-couchdb)
  • accounting-analytics-persistence-BACKEND (i.e. accounting-analytics-persistence-couchdb)
  • accounting-aggregator-persistence-BACKEND (i.e. accounting-aggregator-persistence-couchdb)

Accounting Consumer Layer

In this layer we found not only the accounting consumer which retrieve information related to collected data (e.g. Accounting Manager Portlet) but also all the component which collect data and use accounting-lib to persist in a common pattern.