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** On the resource model we need something like Service ---> Actions
 
** On the resource model we need something like Service ---> Actions
 
** An action could be:
 
** An action could be:
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# a script to execute
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# an invocation to a remote service with certain parameters
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** '''TODO''': Investigate if the [[Facet_Based_Resource_Model#Configuration|Configuration]] facet can be used to define Actions
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**'''TODO''': Investigate if the [[Facet_Based_Resource_Model#Configuration|Configuration]] facet can be used to define Actions
 
** Possible Action definition:
 
** Possible Action definition:
 
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Revision as of 03:38, 7 May 2018

04.05.2018

Participants: Lino, Manuele

Resource Management functionalities

  • Discarded functionality: Merging two contexts is not a requirement
  • New functionality: Cloning a context. We clone users, services, resources, but not data.
  • New functionality: Create a template definition from an existing context to recreate (or clone) it at a later time
    • Impact on the design: RM needs a new collection of resources Templates (in the REST sense) to operate on templates of contexts.
    • Cloning a context could be an operation on a Template resource.
  • The Resource Manager operates at Virtual Service level. A Virtual Service is a bag of Services that delivers a logical group of functionalities. A request to RM specifies which Virtual Service to add/remove/edit. The RM translates this request to the list of concrete services (by querying the Resource Registry) and then instructs the Resource Registry accordingly.
  • New functionality: When a Service is added or remove to a context (as part of a Virtual Service), certain configuration steps could be necessary (e.g. create a new user o space in a DBMS). See Actions in the following.

Resource Model

  • Virtual Services: their definitions are created with a portlet
  • Often, the same Virtual Service differs from one VRE to another, only for 1 Service (typically a DBMS). In these cases, we would like to have a single Virtual Service definition, not many with just a slight difference
    • Possible solution: Associate also a Type to a service, define the Virtual Service to include a service of that Type, and let the RM discovers the service of that Type in the parent context of the target context.
    • TODO: Investigate if Type (or similar information) already exists in the gCube Resource Model
  • Actions Actions are steps to perform whenever there is a change in the participation of a service into a context. Actions are triggered by the Resource Manager when operating with the Service.
    • On the resource model we need something like Service ---> Actions
    • An action could be:
  1. a command line to execute
  2. a script to execute
  3. an invocation to a remote service with certain parameters
    • TODO: Investigate if the Configuration facet can be used to define Actions
    • Possible Action definition:

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Wiki documentation

  • gxRest should be linked in the Core Facilities section
  • the TOC of the development guide should be a real Table of Contents. It's not possible that to find (for instance) the FWS, one has to click on several links sparse on the pages (Manuele).