The architecture has been designed to support the requirements of modern data analytics. It provides a scalable, flexible platform for multiple analytics workloads, and supports the use of a modern data stack architecture. The figure below illustrates the overall modern data stack platform architecture.
- Dell infrastructure
- The infrastructure layer provides the core compute, storage, and network resources for the platform. For details about the recommended infrastructure, see Dell infrastructure. For additional sizing and scaling guidance, see Sizing the solution.
- Control plane
- The control plane is the set of components that provide platform administration, operations management, and application orchestration capabilities. The Symcloud Platform provides the control plane.
- Platform runtime
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Managed by the control plane, the platform runtime components abstract the infrastructure details, exposing them as a pool of compute, storage, and communications resources. For details about both the control plane and platform runtime components, see Container platform implementation.
- Applications and workloads
- Applications and workloads are the components that provide the customer specified data analytics functions. These applications are primarily containerized and use the industry standard Open Container Initiative (OCI) image format. Applications can be packaged into application bundles that include runtime orchestration and deployment information. For details about core applications used for modern data stack architecture, see Workload design. Design guides for other solutions running on this platform can be found on the Dell Info Hub for Data Analytics.