Architecture

CHESS Data Management architecture is based on loosely coupled set of MicroServices:

• the frontend service to provide web UI interface to end-users
• the authentication service to provide authentication to end-users
  • upon successfull authentication it issue valid token used across all other services
• the data discovery service to keep track of participated sites
• the meta-data service to keep track of meta-data information
• the data-management service to manage on-site data via S3 storage objects
• the data-bookkeeping service to keep provenance information about dataset processing
• the authentication and authorization service
• the command line client All of them are glued together by HTTP protocol and represent whole infrustructure. For further details please refer to implementation and apis details.