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 .. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
 .. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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 Architecture
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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.
+Microservices Bus(MSB) provides a reliable, resilient and scalable communication and governance infrastructure to support ONAP Microservice Architecture including service registration/discovery, external API gateway, internal API gateway, client SDK, Swagger SDK, etc. It's a pluggable architecture, plugins can be added to MSB to provide whatever functionalities you need, such as an auth plugin can be used to provide centralized authentication & authorization. MSB also provides a service portal to manage the REST APIs.

 
 

-MSB itself doesn’t depend on a specific environment. It can work in any bare metal, virtual machine or containerized environment.    
+MSB is platform independent, while it is integrated with Kubernetes(OOM) to provide transparent service registration for ONAP microservices, MSB also supports OpenStack(Heat) and bare metal deployment.

 
 

-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.
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+MSB is mainly comprised of three parts: Discovery, API Gateway and MSB Client SDK. MSB also provide a swagger SDK which could generate swagger REST service description files..

 
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 MSB Discovery provides REST APIs for service discovery and registration.
 
 
 MSB Discovery provides REST APIs for service discovery and registration.
 

-Service Gateway provides service request routing, load balancing and centralized Auth. It can be deployed as external Gateway or Internal Gateway.
+API Gateway provides service request routing, load balancing and service governance. It can be deployed as external Gateway or Internal Gateway.

 
 

-MSB SDK is a client-side Java SDK which can be used for point to point communication of microservices.
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+MSB SDK is a client-side Java SDK which can be used for point to point communication of microservices.