The Reference Architecture

Before any of the detail, you need a picture you can defend in an architecture review. This lesson builds the whole platform on one page and everything after it fills in a box.

What this lesson covers

• The end-to-end reference architecture
• Request flow from a user through channel, kernel, control plane, gateway, tools, and back
• Where policy is evaluated, where identity is asserted, where audit is captured
• The map for the rest of the course

The problem

Coming soon.

How it works

Coming soon.

Platform design implications

Coming soon.

Tradeoffs and decision framework

Coming soon.

Common mistakes

Coming soon.