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Details of the new models are shown below. The original Apache models are linked to on page: Atlas Model.
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Base Model
The existing base model appears at this point defining defines key concepts such as Referenceable, Asset, Infrastructure, Process and DataSet.
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Figure 6: Understanding where data assets and services are located | The NestedLocation relationship allows hierarchical grouping of locations to be represented. Notice that locations can be organized into multiple hierarchies. The AdjacentLocation relationship links locations that touch one another. The notion of a location is variable and the classifications PhysicalLocationFixedLocation, SecureLocation and MobileLocation CyberLocation help to clarify the nature of the location.
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Hosts and Platforms
The host and platform metadata entities provide a simple model for the system IT infrastructure (nodes, computers, etc) that data resources are hosted on.
Figure 7: Defining the platform that the data assets and services run on | A Host is an IT Infrastructure concept associated with the hardware running the systems. It provides a mechanism for describing a unit of hardware that provides the ability to host software servers. The host can be linked to its location through the HostLocation relationship. The operating platform is an informational structure to describe the operating system of the host. Many hosts could have the same operating platform. |
Complex Hosts
In today's systems, hardware is managed to get the maximum use out of it. Therefore the concept of a Host is typically virtualized to allow a single computer to be used for many hosts and for multiple computers to collectively support a single host.
The complex hosts handle environments where many nodes are acting together as a cluster, and where virtualized containers (such as Docker) are being used.
Figure 8: Supporting server clusters and server virtualization (server containers) | A HostCluster describes a collection of hosts that together are providing a service. Clusters are often used to provide horizontal scaling of services. A VirtualContainer provides the services of a host to the software servers deployed on it (see 0040 below). When the server makes requests for storage, network access etc, the VirtualContainer delegates the requests to the equivalent services of the actual host it is deployed on. VirtualContainers can be hosted on other VirtualContainers, but to actually run they need to ultimately be deployed on to a real physical Host.
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Software Servers
Servers Software servers describe the middleware software servers (such as application servers, data movement engines and database servers) that run on the Hosts. Within the software server model we capture its userId tat is operates under. Most metadata repositories are run in a secure mode requiring incoming requests to include the requester’s security credentials. Therefore we have an identifier for each unique logged on security identity (aka userId). This identity is recorded within specific entities and relationships when they are created or updated. By storing the user identifier for the server, it is possible to correlate the server with the changes to the metadata (and related data assets) that it makes.
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Figure 9: Servers and their connectivity and capabilities | Open metadata may also capture the network endpoint(s) that the server is connected to and the host it is deployed to. The endpoint defines the parameters needed to connect to the server. It also features in the Connection model used by applications and tools to call the server. Thus through the endpoint entity it is possible to link the connection to the underlying server. Within the server are many capabilities. These range from full applications (see 0170 in Area 1) to security plugins to logging and encryption libraries. Different organizations and tools can choose the granularity in which the capabilities are captured in order to provide appropriate context to data assets and the decisions made around them. |
Software Servers and Assets
Assets are managed or consumed by Server Capabilities. the model below shows how this relationship is captured.
Figure 10: Assets linked to server capabilities |
Networks and Gateways
The network model for open metadata is very simple, to allow hosts to be grouped into the networks they are connected to. This can show details such as where hosts are isolated in private networks, where the gateways onto the Internet.
Figure 1011: The networks that specific hosts connect to |
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The cloud platforms and services model show that cloud computing is not so different from what we have been doing before. Cloud infrastructure and services are classified as such to show that the organization is not completely in control of the technology supporting their data and processes.
Figure 1112: Cloud platforms and services | The cloud provider is the organization that provides and runs the infrastructure for a cloud service. Typically the host it offers is actually a HostCluster. The cloud provider may offer infrastructure as a service (IaaS), in which case, an organization can deploy VirtualContainers onto the cloud provider's HostCluster (see model 0035 above). If the cloud provider is offering platform as a service (PaaS), an application may deploy server capability onto the cloud platform. If the cloud provider is offering Software as a Service (SaaS) then it has provided APIs backed by pre-deployed server capability that an organization can call as a cloud service.
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