ASM Overview

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Alation Services Manager (ASM) is the framework that supports several FDE product offerings including Bots and Data Quality Processors (DQP). ASM provides the foundational components such as UI, scalable processing engines, configuration management, and scheduling. To install and run ASM a server needs to be provisioned.

Architecture

The following diagram describes ASM’s high-level containerized architecture:

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Built-in Components

The following information is provided for informational purposes. ASM automatically deploys and manages the following Docker containers:

  • Celery

  • Postgres

  • Redis

  • Django - Provides the web UI for Bot Admin and Data Quality Processor (DQP) Admin.

ASM deploys and manages the necessary containers to execute tasks such as Bots and DQP rules.