Architecture

The Sahara architecture consists of several components:

• Auth component - responsible for client authentication & authorization, communicates with Keystone
• DAL - Data Access Layer, persists internal models in DB
• Provisioning Engine - component responsible for communication with Nova, Heat, Cinder and Glance
• Vendor Plugins - pluggable mechanism responsible for configuring and launching Hadoop on provisioned VMs; existing management solutions like Apache Ambari and Cloudera Management Console could be utilized for that matter
• EDP - Elastic Data Processing (EDP) responsible for scheduling and managing Hadoop jobs on clusters provisioned by Sahara
• REST API - exposes Sahara functionality via REST
• Python Sahara Client - similar to other OpenStack components Sahara has its own python client
• Sahara pages - GUI for the Sahara is located on Horizon