Minion Architecture

A simple representation of Minion:

And now for a more complicated one :)

At a very high level the responsibilities of each component are:

Web UI
- Generating the web UI (not surprisingly)
- Authenticating and managing users and user sessions
Task Engine
- Providing a REST based API
- Handling requests from trusted components (eg the Web UI)
- Scheduling work across the available resources (ie plugins)
- Persisting data
Plugin Service
- Providing a REST based API
- Handling requests from trusted components (eg the Task Engine)
- Communication with the Plugins
Plugins
- Providing a consistent API to other security tools

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