The Maestrano platform is composed of the following components:
1 - Frontend App(s)
The frontend applications are interfaces between the users - customers, staff, partners - and the actual Maestrano platform. While most implementations only include one frontend application - usually a customer portal/marketplace/dashboard - one could decide to create a different application for staff users such as support or administrator people. One could also decide to use the Maestrano platform in order to serve multiple business purposes - multiple business units - and create multiple frontend applications accordingly.
Maestrano supports multi-tenancy out of the box. This means that frontend applications can be setup with access to the same customer base or different customer bases (isolated frontend applications).
Frontend applications are lightweight, dependency-less Ruby on Rails (RoR) applications connecting via API to MnoHub (see section below). Frontend applications do not need a database such as MySQL or Oracle to function as all data are accessed via API from the hub. A database can always be added if application specific data or metadata need to be stored.
While Maestrano provides a RoR template to build frontend applications, one could easily choose another application stack to build their own frontend as the only hard dependency is to be able to consume the MnoHub JSON REST API.
2 - MnoHub
The Maestrano Hub acts as an orchestrator for the whole platform. It holds any data related to customer identification, billing and product purchase/subscription. The hub is also responsible for maintaining the Access Control Lists (ACL) for all platform users.
BLA - Overview Diagram
The diagram below show how all components interact together.
