Replicante attempts to limit the number of required dependencies to avoid management overhead. On the other hand it is unwise to re-implement complex systems (such as databases) if there is no need.
In order to run, replicante requires the following:
Used to persist the information collected from agents, generated metadata, and any other permanent data that is required by replicante to implement its features.
Supported systems:
Replcante supports high availability, machine failure tolerance, and horizontal scaling.
To achieve this Replicante runs multiple instances of the same process on different machines (or VMs).
A distributed coordinator is a system (itself also highly available) that allows the coordination of work across all processes as well as the re-distribution of work assigned to failed processes.
Supported systems:
Events generated by Replicante are emitted onto a streaming platform. This provides two advantages:
Supported systems:
Some features may rely on additional runtime dependencies. To keep the set of required dependencies to a minimum these features must be enabled explicitly.
The needed systems and configuration details are documented within the features that need them.