Microservice discovery flow

This image shows the discovery flow of the device discovery microservices pipeline. It has the following components:

• On the left, a container representing the external network, containing:
  • A REST API interface
  • A group of SNMP, ICMP, and VMware devices
• On the right, a container representing Unified Assurance, that contains boxes for the following microservices:
  • Discovery Service
  • Apache Pulsar, which contains topics for SNMP, Ping, and VMware Pollers and a topic for the discovery service
  • Ping Poller, which contains one poller coordinator and many poller workers
  • SNMP Poller, which contains one poller coordinator and many poller workers
  • VMware Poller, which contains one poller coordinator and many poller workers

The flow through these components is described in the text that follows the image.