This sketches out some more details in the Metadata format, in addition to
starting to articulate what the AWS IaaS provider looks like. Sadly, more
questions than answers, but it's good to have the placeholders...
Simple developer scenarios can be done solely in terms of Stacks. However, to
support more sophisticated cases -- where multiplexing many Stacks onto a shared
set of resources is preferred (for cost savings, provisioning time savings,
control, etc) -- we need to introduce the concept of a Cluster. Each Cluster has
a fixed combination of IaaS/CaaS provider, decided at provisioning time.
This just contains primarily scaffolding, however lays out a general direction
and table of contents for the metadata specification document (marapongo/mu#1).
This doc will describe the overall architecture for the Mu tools, platform,
and related artifacts. It will be a companion to the more detailed drill-down
into the Mufile format and its specific target transformations (marapongo/mu#1).
There are tons of todos, etc., however this is at least a start, with some
amount of conceptual overview plus scaffolding and structure to fill out.
This snapshots thinking as of maybe two weeks ago. I'm preparing to
do a big overhaul of all of the write-ups, and specifically start on the
Mu.yaml file format spec, and so I want to archive everything that's in flight.
Instead of leading in with the Service-based voting application, and then
simplifying it to a serverless Function-based one, do it in the reverse order.
This allows us to "grow" the sample, motivating each change as we go.
