UI Middleware
Provides the collected manifest.json of services in a cluster as well as a list of dependencies for each source file. This information can be used to dynamically compile all ui components at runtime in the browser. Besides serving the information about all resources, this service can also function to provide snapshots of all the resources available at a specific point in time.
Architecture
The UI Middleware is, as the name already suggests, a middleware component to support the App Suite UI. As an installation of App Suite UI can consist of multiple projects, like the Core App Suite UI, Documents UI, OX Guard UI, and other custom plugins, those components need to be combined at some point to be served to the browser. This is handled by the ui-middleware component, by putting it between the Ingress Controller and the containers serving the individual components that make up the App Suite UI.
If you prefer a picture, this is, how such an installation can look like.
Prerequisites
- A Redis server is required (standalone, sentinel and cluster mode supported)