Architecture

The library is designed as follows:

Design Perspectives

The main components are:

• Profile: The profile defines a set of properties and information about the user's authentication methods. Profiles are persisted on the filesystem for subsequent actions.
• Authenticators: The integrations with specific authentication methods, which enable interaction with services. An authentication method can either be Identity (User/Service User) or a custom implementation.
• Services: The service providing functionality (requires one or more associated authenticators to perform actions). For example, the DPA service exposes DPA APIs in an secure manner.
• Services Model Schemes The models exposed by a service, which can be used to perform the service's actions.
• CLI Actions: CLI interface built on the SDK, which provides users with the following shell commands:
  • configure: Configure a profile with authentication details
  • login: Log in with a configured profile authenticator
  • exec: Execute services actions