architecture.md

Epinio architecture

This page describes the Epinio architecture using the C4 model.

Generating the architecture diagram

• Navigate to the directory where the puml file is stored (e.g. here)
• Download a released plantuml jar from here (v1.2022.6 is known to work): https://github.com/plantuml/plantuml/releases
• Generate the diagram with a command like:

java -jar plantuml-1.2022.6.jar containers.puml

Epinio architecture

"Containers" diagram in c4model

The S3 compatible object store and the container registry in the diagram above, can also be deployed inside the Kubernetes cluster. This happens by default when installing with the Epinio helm chart, if no values are provided for external S3 or registry. The diagram below is adapted for that case:

Useful links

• c4 model
• C4-PlantUML