flavors

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Flavors

A flavor is a reusable collection of plugins with initialized dependencies.

The most importatnt CN-Infra flavors are:

• local flavor - a minimal set of plugins. It is used to just initialize logging & statuscheck. It is useful for embedding agent plugins into different projects that use their own infrastructure.
• RPC flavor - a collection of plugins that expose RPCs. It also registers management APIs for:
  • status check (RPCs probed from systems such as K8s)
  • logging (for changing log level at runtime remotely)
• connectors flavor - is combination of ETCD, Cassandra, Redis & Kafka related plugins.

The following diagram depicts:

• plugins that are parts of a specific flavor
• the initialized (injected) statuscheck dependency within the etcd client plugin and the Kafka client plugin
• the local flavor embedded in:
  • all connectors flavor
  • RPC flavor

Documentation

Overview

Package flavors contains predefined cn-infra flavors. A flavor is a re-usable collection of plugins with initialized dependencies. It is typically used as a starting point for developing a cn-infra based app. A flavor contains plugins required by the app. App developers can also define their own flavors or extend one of the predefined flavors.