Jobs & resources

An instance of the trac platform will have access to the following types of system resource. Depending on you installation the technologies providing these services may differ but the platform services will interact with them the same way.

Internal Storage	Primary data storage locations. which the platform has sole write access to.
External Storage	Storage locations that the platform is granted read or write access to - used for import/export
Code Repository	External version control systems used to store the models orchestrated on the platform
Compute Service	The method of computation that the platform can all upon (e.g. Kubernetes on cloud)

With these resources, users with appropriate permissions can configure and run five different job types.

ImportData	Copies data from an External Storage location into the platform via a batch import process
ImportModel	Brings a new model or model version onto the platform from a Repository
RunModel	Runs a model against a set of data and parameter inputs, using the Compute Service
RunFlow	Runs a chain of models (a flow) against a set of data, model and parameter inputs
ExportData	Publishes data to an External Storage location via a batch import process

Note

Data, File and Schema objects can be loaded via the UI, which directly creates the object in the metadata store without a corresponding Job record. This is also true for building a Flow.