[AIRAVATA-3789] Local user interaface for Airavata MFT

• Type: Epic
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: mft
• Labels: gsoc2024
• Epic Name: Local user interaface for Airavata MFT
• difficulty-level: Easy
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Suresh Marru
• Created: 26/Jan/24 14:49
• Updated: 26/Jan/24 14:49

Description

NOte: This is an issue in github - https://github.com/apache/airavata-mft/issues/114 cross posting in Jira for GSoC purposes. 

Currently, Airavata MFT can be accessed through its command line interface and the gRPC API. However, it is really easy if a Docker desktop-like user interface is provided for a locally running Airavata MFT. The functionalities of such an interface can be summarized as follows

1. Start / Stop MFT Instance
2. Register/ List/ Remove Storage endpoints
3. Access data (list, download, delete, upload) in configured storage endpoints
4. Move data between storage endpoints
5. Search data across multiple storage endpoints
6. Analytics - Performance numbers (data transfer rates in each agent)

We can use ElectonJS to develop this cross-platform user interface. The node.js backend of ElectronJS can use gRPC to connect to Airavata MFT to perform management operations