Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite has a distributed architecture that can manage the life cycle of large numbers of geographically distributed servers.
Deploy the Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite cluster as a single cluster or in a high availability (HA) configuration with two redundant HA nodes for enhanced reliability and performance. You can deploy on any user-supplied Ubuntu 20.04LTS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 system that meets the hardware and node requirements.
The following figure illustrates the architecture of an Automation Suite single-node cluster:
The Automation Suite architecture consists of:
- User interfaces—Automation Suite provides a web-based user interface (UI), and an Application Programming Interface (API). These interfaces perform remote infrastructure management tasks. All requests and actions from these interfaces reach the Global Controller (GC).
- Global Controller—A node (multiple nodes for high availability (HA)) that is part of the infrastructure management cloud that is deployed at the central office and can manage sites and compute resources that are associated with it. It constitutes core services, bare metal provisioning services, and bare metal site services. For more information, see Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite services.