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+# REST API Support for Admin Console
+
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+# Health Check Worker
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+# Instance Management Worker
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+# Admin API Design to Support the Admin Console
+
+## Overview
+
+The Ed-Fi Admin Console is a web-based user interface tool for managing Ed-Fi
+ODS/API Platform installations. User can perform actions that include:
+
+* Manage tenants and database instances
+* Manage Client credentials ("keys and secrets")
+* Review application and database health
+
+The Ed-Fi Admin Console application is a front-end only. The Ed-Fi Admin API 2
+application will act as the backend-for-frontend (BFF), serving all of the
+interaction needs for Admin Console. The Ed-Fi Admin API 2 will in turn rely on
+other services and "worker" applications as needed to achieve some of its goals.
+
+The purpose of this document and related documents is to describe the
+architecture of the related applications, the interfaces that sustain
+communication, and the storage layers requirements.
+
+> [!TIP]
+> The following sections utilize the [C4 model](https://c4model.com/) for
+> describing the System Context and decomposing Containers within that Context.
+> The notes further refine the architecture with detailed [UML sequence
+> diagrams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_diagram).
+
+## System Context
+
+```mermaid
+C4Context
+ title System Context for Ed-Fi Admin Console
+
+ Person(User, "Admin Console User", "A system administrator")
+
+ System(AdminConsole, "Ed-Fi Admin Console", "A web application for managing ODS/API Deployments")
+
+ System_Boundary(backend, "Backend Systems") {
+
+ System(AdminAPI, "Ed-Fi Admin API 2 and Workers", "A REST API system for managing administrative data and deployments, plus background worker apps")
+
+ System(OdsApi, "Ed-Fi ODS/API", "A REST API system for educational data interoperability")
+ SystemDb(dbs, "ODS, Admin, and Security")
+ }
+
+ Rel(User, AdminConsole, "Manages instances,
Manages client credentials,
Checks API health")
+ UpdateRelStyle(User, AdminConsole, $offsetX="0", $offsetY="30")
+
+ Rel(AdminConsole, AdminAPI, "Issues HTTP requests")
+ UpdateRelStyle(AdminConsole, AdminAPI, $offsetY="-40", $offsetX="20")
+
+ Rel(AdminAPI, dbs, "Reads and writes admin/security,
Creates ODS instances")
+ UpdateRelStyle(AdminAPI, dbs, $offsetY="0", $offsetX="40")
+
+ Rel(AdminAPI, OdsApi, "Reads")
+ UpdateRelStyle(AdminAPI, OdsApi, $offsetY="-10", $offsetX="-10")
+
+ Rel(OdsApi, dbs, "Reads admin and writes ODS")
+ UpdateRelStyle(OdsApi, dbs, $offsetY="10", $offsetX="80")
+
+ UpdateLayoutConfig($c4ShapeInRow="2", $c4BoundaryInRow="1")
+```
+
+## Containers
+
+Two of the functions needed by Admin API 2 will benefit from background
+execution, so that the Admin Console end user can experience a quick response
+time in the web browser. Two worker applications will provide the background
+processing:
+
+1. Instance Management Worker - creates new database instances.
+2. Health Check Worker - polls the ODS/API to find record counts and records
+ them in Admin API 2.
+
+```mermaid
+C4Container
+ title "Admin API Containers"
+
+ System(AdminConsole, "Ed-Fi Admin Console", "A web application for managing ODS/API Deployments")
+
+ System_Boundary(backend, "Backend Systems") {
+
+ Boundary(b0, "Admin API") {
+ Container(AdminAPI, "Ed-Fi Admin API 2")
+ Container(HealthCheck, "Admin API Health
Check Worker")
+ Container(Instance, "Admin API Instance
Management Worker")
+ }
+
+ Boundary(b1, "ODS/API") {
+ System(OdsApi, "Ed-Fi ODS/API", "A REST API system for
educational data interoperability")
+ SystemDb(ods3, "EdFi_ODS_")
+ }
+
+ Boundary(b2, "Shared Databases") {
+ ContainerDb(Admin, "EdFi_Admin,
EdFi_Security")
+ }
+ }
+
+ Rel(AdminConsole, AdminAPI, "Issues HTTP requests")
+
+ Rel(HealthCheck, AdminAPI, "Reads ODS/API connections,
Writes health info")
+ UpdateRelStyle(HealthCheck, AdminAPI, $offsetY="50")
+
+ Rel(HealthCheck, OdsApi, "Reads records counts")
+ UpdateRelStyle(HealthCheck, OdsApi, $offsetX="-60", $offsetY="20")
+
+ Rel(Instance, AdminAPI, "Reads instance requests,
Write instance status")
+ UpdateRelStyle(Instance, AdminAPI, $offsetY="20", $offsetX="10")
+
+ Rel(Instance, ods3, "Creates new ODS instances")
+ UpdateRelStyle(Instance, ods3, $offsetY="20", $offsetX="-50")
+
+ Rel(OdsApi, ods3, "Reads and writes")
+ UpdateRelStyle(OdsApi, ods3, $offsetX="10")
+
+ Rel(AdminAPI, Admin, "Reads and writes")
+ UpdateRelStyle(AdminAPI, Admin, $offsetY="50", $offsetX="10")
+
+ Rel(OdsApi, Admin, "Reads")
+ UpdateRelStyle(OdsApi, Admin, $offsetY="20", $offsetX="-10")
+
+ UpdateLayoutConfig($c4ShapeInRow="2", $c4BoundaryInRow="2")
+```
+
+## Interfaces and Interactions
+
+The API interfaces and the interactions between specific containers are
+described in detail in the following documents:
+
+* [Instance Management Worker](./INSTANCE-MANAGEMENT.md)
+* [Health Check Worker](./HEALTH-CHECK-WORKER.md)
+* [REST API Support for Admin Console](./APIS-FOR-ADMIN-CONSOLE.md)