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Federation Manager — Federation Functions

The East/Westbound Interface between Operator Platforms.

The Federation Manager enables interconnection between multiple Operator Platform instances operated by different operators. Two instances communicate over the East/Westbound Interface (E/WBI).

In federation scenarios, one instance acts as the Leading OP — initiating and owning the request on behalf of an Application Provider — while the other acts as the Partner OP, fulfilling the request using its own infrastructure and Availability Zones.

The Federation Manager is responsible for:

  • Establishing, maintaining and terminating federation agreements between Operator Platforms
  • Synchronising Availability Zone and resource catalogue information with Partner OPs
  • Transferring application artefacts to the Partner OP
  • Managing Application Instance lifecycle on the Partner OP's infrastructure via the E/WBI

The Federation Manager is the E/WBI entry point. When the Leading OP needs to deploy an Application Instance in a Partner OP's Availability Zone, the two Federation Managers coordinate the operation on behalf of their respective platforms.

Artifact Manager

A managed repository for application artifacts.

The Artifact Manager stores and serves the deployment artifacts associated with registered applications such as container images and Helm charts, making them available to the infrastructure during instantiation.