Commit 79387903 authored by Jack Greenfield's avatar Jack Greenfield

Update design.md

parent 44c264b9
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* Service
Deployment Manager processes configurable resources by passing their
configuration properties directly to kubectl on the cluster to create, update,
or delete the resources.
configuration properties directly to kubectl to create, update, or delete them
in the cluster.
### Templates
Templates are abstract types that can be created using Python or
[Jinja](http://jinja.pocoo.org/). A template takes a set of properties as input,
and must output a valid YAML configuration string. Properties are bound to
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configuration to Deployment Manager.
### Instantiating Templates
Templates can be used in two different ways: either passed to the API as an
imported file, or used from a public HTTP endpoint.
#### Imported Templates
Templates can be imported as part of the target configuration, and used
directly, for example:
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imports section of the _configuration_.
#### External Templates
Templates can also be used from a public HTTP endpoint. For example:
```
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template is used for relative paths.
## API Model
Deployment Manager exposes a set of RESTful collections over HTTP/JSON.
### Deployments
Deployments are the primary resource in the Deployment Manager service. The
inputs to a deployment are:
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```
### Manifests
A manifest is created for a deployment every time it is changed. It contains
three key components:
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processing.
#### Layout
Users can use templates to build a rich, deep hierarchical architecture in their
configuration. Expansion flattens this hierarchy and removes the template
relationships from the configuration to create a format optimized for the process
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