High-Level Architecture
Cloudify Manager comprises the following main parts:
- Cloudify Manager
- Agents optional
- Cloudify Management Console
Cloudify Manager
The Cloudify Manager consists of the Cloudify code and a set of open-source applications. For an in-depth explanation of these applications, click here.
The Cloudify Manager architecture is designed to support all potential operational workflows you might require when managing your applications, including:
- Event-stream processing
- Processing secured requests
- Metrics queueing, aggregation and analysis
- Logs/ events queueing, aggregation, and analysis
- Manual or automated task execution and queueing, based on live streams of events, or aggregated data
- Interaction with Cloudify Agent, for executing tasks on, and maintaining, application hosts
You can also communicate with Cloudify Manager using the command-line interface, which uses the Cloudify REST client module to interact with the Cloudify REST service.
All requests are served via a proxy.
Cloudify Agent
These are entities for executing tasks on application hosts. They listen to task queues and execute tasks when required.
The agents are designed to execute tasks using plugins.
In the background, the same agents that are used on the hosts are also used in Cloudify Manager, but in a different context. For instance, every deployment has two agents, one of which talks to IaaS APIs to deploy resources.
Note: Cloudify can run on “agentless” mode, which means that agents can use specific plugins to manage hosts without the agents being installed on those hosts. You can specify which server nodes will have agents installed on them in the blueprint.
For more information about agents, click here.
Cloudify Management Console
This is a UI interface that easily interacts with Cloudify Manager. For more information, click here.