Scope Management

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What's in Scope?

Any gCube resource may only be shared within one or more scopes in the infrastructure on which it is deployed:

Scope is a multi-valued property of all gCube resources.

In addition, we have scope for the state of a specific type of resource, the Running Instance. Therefore, we also have:

Scope is a multi-valued property of WS-Resources generated by Running Instances of gCube services.

Outside its scopes, in particular, a resource can neither be discovered nor used:

Modelling Scope

Three levels of scope may be assigned to a resource: a gCube Infrastructure (GI), a Virtual Organization (VO), or a Virtual Research Environment (VRE).

The levels are hierarchically ordered: GIs are above VOs and VREs are below VOs.

We follow a grammar to denote scopes in a way which formalizes their hierarchical relationships:

SCOPE : = = GI | VO | VRE
GI :== /l
VO :== GI/l
VRE :== VO/l

where l ranges over an alphabet of labels.

For convenience, we write S1 below S2 to indicate that S1 and S2 denote the scope or that S1 is directly or indirectly below S2. Similarly, we write S1 above S2 to indicate that S1 and S2 denote the scope or that S1 is directly or indirectly above S2.

We model scoping as a binary relationship between resource and scopes. We write R in S to denote a pair (R,S) of a resource R and a scope S in the scoping relationship.

Scope Rules

Scoping is constrained by a number of scope rules.

Scope rules are specific to resource types. A default rule, however, applies to all of them:

Let VRE range offer virtual research environments, R be a resource and VO virtual organisation.

DEF) if R is shared in a VOs then it is also shared in VREs below: R in VO => for each VRE in VO. R in VRE

• NB: The opposite does not always hold: depending on resource type, a resource may be shared in a VRE but not in the VO above.
• NB: Most definitely, a resource shared in a GI is not automatically shared in the VOs. For this to happen, the resource may have to explicitly join a VO.

Scoping Rules for gCube Hosting Nodes

Let GI range over gCube Infrastructures and GHN be a hosting node.

GHN1) GHN may only be shared in one infrastructure: exist GI. GHN in GI and (GHN in S => S below GI)

GHN2) if a GHN is shared in a scope is also shared above it: GHN in S => for each S' above S. GHN in S'

• NB: GHN2) proves that the converse of DEF) hold for GHNs: A GHN cannot be shared in VRE(VO) if it is not shared also in the VO(GI) above.

gCore implications:

• DEF) + GHN2) => model GHN scope as a list of one GI and zero or more VOs.
• on add, enforce GHN1) and retain only VO from VRE scopes (GCUBEHostingNode)
• on remove, prevent removal of GI if attempted (GCUBEHostingNode)
• on bootstrap, require configuration of single GI and allow zero ore more start VOs (GHNBuilder)

Scoping Rules for gCube Services

Let SV be a gCube Service.

SV1) if SV is shared in a scope it is also shared below it: SV in S => for each S' in S. R in S'

• NB: This extends DEF) to infrastructure-level scope make scoping simplest for services.

gCore implications: none special, scopes are immutable for services (i.e. for the ones already deployed).

Scoping Rules for Running Instances (RIs) of gCube services

Running instances are a first example of resource type for which scoping rules are further constrained by the scope of related resources. In fact, running instances relate to their services and the hosting nodes on which they are deployed.

Let SV(RI) and GHN(RI) denote, respectively, the service of a RI and the GHN on which the RI is deployed.

RI1) RI can only be shared where its GHN and service can: RI in S => GHN(RI) in S and SV(RI) in S

• NB: The opposite of RI1) does not hold: a RI is not necessarily shared wherever its GHN and its service are.

gCore implications:

• on add, enforce RI1) (ServiceContext)
• on startup,
  • generic service: subscribe consumer for GHN remove scope events only (ServiceContext) => remove all RI scopes contained in those removed from the GHN (consumer).
  • local service: subscribe consumer for GHN remove and add scope events (ServiceContext) => add new GHN scopes to RI (consumer).
• on bootstrap,
  • allow JNDI configuration of zero or more start scopes (RIBuilder)
  • static only : add all GHN scopes if no start scopes are available (RIBuilder). Prevent in dynamic bootstrap.

Scoping Rules for WS-Resource generated by Running Instances of gCube services

WS-Resources are anther example of resource type for which scoping rules are further constrained by the scope of related resources, in this case the running instance which generate them. Let WSR denote a WS-Resource and RI(WSR) the RI through which has generated WSR.

WSR1) WSR can only be shared where its RI can: WSR in S => RI(WSR) in S

• NB: The opposite of RI1 does not hold: a RI is not necessarily shared wherever its GHN and its service are.

gCore implications:

• on creation, enforce WSR1) (GCUBEHandler)
• on remove, remove from all WS-Resource which have been created by some stateful-port-type of the RI below the removed RI scope;
  • due to persistence, cannot be easily performed locally, use instead queries to the IS

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Scope Managers

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