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Architecture
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The Sahara architecture consists of several components:
* Auth component - responsible for client authentication & authorization,
communicates with the OpenStack Identity service (keystone).
* DAL - Data Access Layer, persists internal models in DB.
* Secure Storage Access Layer - persists the authentication data like passwords
and private keys in a secure storage.
* Provisioning Engine - component responsible for communication with
the OpenStack Compute (nova), Orchestration (heat), Block Storage (cinder),
Image (glance), and DNS (designate) services.
* Vendor Plugins - pluggable mechanism responsible for configuring and
launching data processing frameworks on provisioned VMs. Existing
management solutions like Apache Ambari and Cloudera Management Console
could be utilized for that purpose as well.
* EDP - :doc:`../userdoc/edp` responsible for scheduling and managing
data processing jobs on clusters provisioned by sahara.
* REST API - exposes sahara functionality via REST HTTP interface.
* Python Sahara Client - like other OpenStack components, sahara has
its own python client.
* Sahara pages - a GUI for the sahara is located in the OpenStack Dashboard
(horizon).