Infrastructure Optimization service overviewΒΆ

The Infrastructure Optimization service provides flexible and scalable optimization service for multi-tenant OpenStack based clouds.

The Infrastructure Optimization service consists of the following components:

watcher command-line client
A CLI to communicate with watcher-api to optimize the cloud.
watcher-api service
An OpenStack-native REST API that accepts and responds to end-user calls by processing them and forwarding to appropriate underlying watcher services via AMQP.
watcher-decision-engine service
It runs audit and return an action plan to achieve optimization goal specified by the end-user in audit.
watcher-applier service
It executes action plan built by watcher-decision-engine. It interacts with other OpenStack components like nova to execute the given action plan.
watcher-dashboard
Watcher UI implemented as a plugin for the OpenStack Dashboard.