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OpenCloud Technical Documentation — Work in Progress

OpenCloud Documentation

Work in Progress

This documentation site provides a unified and structured view of all core concepts behind OpenCloud, the sovereign, distributed, peer-to-peer cloud platform.

All OpenCloud microservices expose OpenAPI-compliant specifications, ensuring that:

  • API structures and endpoints are always discoverable
  • Code generation can be automated
  • Integrators can explore service capabilities
  • Implementations remain consistent across deployments

The full set of OpenAPI definitions will be progressively published as the platform stabilizes and services reach higher maturity levels.

Documentation Status

This documentation is currently under construction.

Each section below represents a major technical capability of OpenCloud.
Pages will be expanded iteratively to include:

  • Concepts & design principles
  • Architecture diagrams
  • API references (via OpenAPI)
  • Usage scenarios
  • Configuration guidelines
  • Deployment instructions
  • Best practices & integration patterns

If you want detailed or early-access drafts for any section, feel free to request them.

Table of Contents

Below is the initial Table of Contents for the OpenCloud documentation.
Every topic listed here will eventually become a dedicated page or section.

1. Introduction to OpenCloud

  • What is OpenCloud?
  • Sovereignty principles
  • Federated trust model
  • Architecture overview
  • Glossary of OpenCloud concepts

2. Resource Catalog

The Catalog is the foundation of all OpenCloud interactions.

  • Resource model
  • Metadata definitions (catalog_metadata)
  • Data resources
  • Algorithm resources
  • Compute Units
  • Storage resources
  • Workflow templates
  • Resource visibility (public / restricted / private)
  • Access rules (credentials, payment, agreements)
  • API endpoints (OpenAPI)

3. Peer Discovery & Connectivity

OpenCloud’s decentralization starts with peer discovery.

  • Peer registration
  • Peer identities
  • Distributed trust graph
  • Community/group definitions
  • Private federations
  • Peer health and presence
  • Networking models (P2P overlays, WAN, LAN)
  • API endpoints (OpenAPI)

4. Authentication & Authorization

Identity and access control across distributed partners.

  • OpenID-based distributed authentication
  • Federation of identity providers
  • Session and token management
  • Access scopes & privileges
  • Fine-grained access control
  • Collaborative area rule enforcement
  • API endpoints (OpenAPI)

5. Workspace Management

Organizing data, algorithms, and services for distributed workflows.

  • Workspaces lifecycle
  • Resource selection
  • Project and team organization
  • Collaboration patterns
  • Integration with workflows
  • API endpoints (OpenAPI)

6. Workflow Design & Distributed Execution

The heart of OpenCloud’s capabilities.

  • Workflow design principles
  • Editor interface concepts
  • Distributed data flows
  • Execution strategies
    • Sovereignty-optimized
    • Performance-optimized
    • Cost-optimized
    • Hybrid strategies
  • Multi-cloud and edge execution
  • Stateless vs. stateful operations
  • Error handling & retries
  • Workflow templates and sharing
  • API endpoints (OpenAPI)

7. Deployment & Resource Booking

Running services and reserving infrastructure across peers.

  • Deployment model
  • Resource reservation (compute, storage, algorithms)
  • SLA & QoS considerations
  • Scheduling and placement policies
  • Deployment on datacenter vs. edge nodes
  • Public-cloud hybrid deployments
  • API endpoints (OpenAPI)

8. Monitoring & Observability

Understanding system state across distributed deployments.

  • Metrics collection
  • Execution tracing
  • Peer availability & health
  • Resource usage dashboards
  • Alerts & notifications
  • Integration with Prometheus, Loki, Grafana
  • API endpoints (OpenAPI)

9. Accounting & Peer-to-Peer Billing

Tracking distributed resource consumption.

  • Transaction capture
  • Usage metering models
  • Resource pricing
  • Peer-to-peer cost settlement
  • Billing transparency
  • Audit logs
  • API endpoints (OpenAPI)

10. Collaborative Areas

Governance for multi-organization projects.

  • Workspace sharing
  • Policy rules (open-source only, no personal data, legal restrictions, visibility constraints)
  • Auto-enforced vs. manually-reviewed rules
  • Community membership
  • Compliance workflows
  • API endpoints (OpenAPI)

11. Platform Components & Microservices

Detailed documentation for each service.

  • Service overview
  • Responsibilities & isolation
  • Deployment diagrams
  • Configuration parameters
  • Inter-service API contracts (OpenAPI)

12. Deployment Guides

Instructions for various environments.

  • Local developer installations
  • Bare-metal and VM deployments
  • Kubernetes & containerized environments
  • Edge deployments (ARM SBCs)
  • Cloud provider deployment
  • High-availability patterns

13. Security

Security is an essential dimension of OpenCloud.

  • Communication security
  • Mutual authentication
  • Data confidentiality
  • Integrity & non-repudiation
  • Threat models
  • Secure default configurations

14. Roadmap & Future Evolutions

  • Upcoming features
  • Long-term vision
  • Governance model
  • Community contributions
  • API deprecations

15. API Reference (auto-generated)

All microservices expose:

  • REST endpoints
  • JSON schema definitions
  • Error codes
  • Webhooks (if any)
  • Tooling for client generation

These pages are directly generated from the OpenAPI contract.