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Architecture
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MSB(Microservices Bus) provide a comprehensive, end to end solution to support ONAP microservice architecture including service registration/discovery, external gateway, internal gateway, client SDK. It's a pluggable architecture so it can integrate with auth service provider to provide centralized Authentication & Authorization. MSB also provides a service portal to manage the REST APIs.
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MSB itself doesn’t depend on a specific environment. It can work in any bare metal, virtual machine or containerized environment.
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MSB mainly comprises three parts: Discovery, API Gateway and MSB Client SDK. MSB also provide a swagger SDK which could generate swagger REST service description files.
.. image:: images/msb-architecture.png
Registry is the storage of service information, MSB leverage Consul as the service registry.
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MSB Discovery provides REST APIs for service discovery and registration.
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Service Gateway provides service request routing, load balancing and centralized Auth. It can be deployed as external Gateway or Internal Gateway.
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MSB SDK is a client-side Java SDK which can be used for point to point communication of microservices. \ No newline at end of file