Essential Concepts

Actions

Tasks performed by agents, usually on request by Replicante Core. Actions properties and attributes are defined in the specification.

Agents

Processes running along side Datastore processes on nodes.
They provide a specification compliant interface to the datastore and perform actions.

Clusters

A collection of nodes that work together to provide the services offered by the datastore.

Datastores

Any software that implement the specification, either alone or with the aid of an agent.

Events

Records of ativities and changes that happened to or on nodes as well as within Replicante Core.

Replicante Core

The central component that runs as a highly available distributed software to orchestrate all clusters. Orchestration is achieved by continuously observing nodes and generating actions to converge to a desired state.

The Protocol

The protocol defined in the specification for Replicante Core to interact with the agents.