Resource Management for the gCube Model
This component is under development.
Role and Responsibilities
Resource Management refers to a set of software components revolving around the Resource Manager service. They are collectively responsible for delivering the following operations:
- creating contexts
- moving, editing, merging, deleting contexts
- managing resources within a context according to the gCube Resource Model.
Contexts may have an arbitrary hierarchy. Each time a new context is created, the Resource Manager service receives a list of Virtual Services that will belong to the new context. With this list:
- each Virtual
Design requirements
On the deployment
- The service has to be stateless. Multiple instances will be deployed behind a HAProxy.
- The service has to be able to manage more than one context (a.k.a. scope). In principle, we will deploy just one set of instances of the service (behind the proxy) to manage the infrastructure context, the VOs, and VREs. However, it should also be possible to deploy one instance for a specific VO.
- A new instance of the service can be added at any time to the set of instances already deployed without manual configuration of the new instance or changes to the configuration of the pre-existing ones.
On the interaction with other components
The Resource Management software is expected to deliver its operations by collaborating with the following components:
- Resource Registry and its client libraries to add/remove/edit/merge contexts and their resources. Each time a new context is created, the Resource Manager service receives a list of [[Facet_Based_Resource_Model#Virtual_Service | Virtual Services] that will belong to the new context. The Resource Manager contacts the RR in order to:
- create the context
- navigate the parent scope(s) and select which pre-existing Virtual Services will become part of the new context (is that correct?)
- add the Virtual Services to the context. With a cascade policy on the callFor relation, all the Services related to each Virtual Service are automatically added to the context by the RR.
- navigate the demands relations and discover the Software(s) required by each Virtual Service (typically not running on SmartGears, e.g. a DBMS). Then add this Software to the new context.
- Authorization Service
- VHN Manager
It is expected that a portlet is built atop the Resource Management (and integrates with its client library) to request the operations.
On the context it operates
Considering that each token is bound to a single context, while the Resource Management needs to work across contexts, the interactions with the Resource Registry have to be trusted because of the caller identity. I.e. the RR allows the Resource Management to do whatever it wants just because of its identity and regardless the context attached to the call. We would need to set up new policies for this authZ.
The service token with the identity of the Resource Manager service is obtained by the local SmartGears lib when the webapp with the service is activated by the container.
