Software components

Dartagnan server is divided in 3 parts:

• Athos: REST API server implemented in Go, it handles subcriptions, payments and serve data to Aramis
• Aramis: web interface which uses Athos APIs to display manage machines, alerts and subscriptions
• Porthos: stable updates YUM mirror, accessible only from registered machines

Athos

The server REST APIs are documented here.

Athos stores all data inside a PostgreSQL database.

The API client part is shipped by the nethserver-subscription RPM and is made up of three main parts:

• server registration and YUM repositories configuration
• machine information gathering (inventory)
• machine monitoring and alert generation

The client technical documentation can be found at https://github.com/nethserver/nethserver-subscription.

Aramis

Partial list of features:

• Authentication via social login or ad-hoc account using Auth0
• Machine registration with free 30 days trial
• Subscription and payments management via PayPal API
• Alerts management

Porthos

Porthos serves YUM repositories via HTTPS. Its main features are:

• access with HTTP basic authentication
• upstream repository synchronization
• snapshot views of each repository, to gradually release updates to client tiers

More information about Porthos is available at https://github.com/nethesis/dartagnan/blob/master/porthos/README.md