Agent Manager

Responsible for the lifecycle of agents. Provides the API that agents use to communicate with the infrastructure. Defines the lifecycle and linking model for applications.

Activities include:

• Discovery/identification of agents
• Agent event notification
• Agent lifecycle:
  • Startup and termination of agents
  • Agent-to-infrastructure attach and detach
• Agent health checking (e.g "heartbeat")
• Agent to agent communication
• Stdin/stdout/stderr forwarding