Consume Artifact

The consumption of artifacts is the default IDS way of interaction between two connectors. Following the general process of:

1. retrieving the metadata of the connector and artifact,
2. negotiating a contract for the artifact,
3. retrieving the artifact.

The test connector deployed at https://test-connector.playground.dataspac.es/ui/ provides a single artifact with a simple policy offer attached to it that allows for READ and USE rights if a consumer requests a contract with a validity in 2022 and 2023.

The following deployment strategies can be chosen for consuming artifacts:

• Local Kubernetes: For Kubernetes clusters on local hardware, e.g. via Docker Desktop, Minikube, MicroK8s.
• Public Kubernetes: For Kubernetes clusters on cloud infrastructure or on self-managed servers that are reachable from the internet.
• Docker Compose: If you don’t have any experience with Kubernetes and no intention to use it in the future. Configuration will be harder for Docker deployments, especially when moving towards a publicly available connector.