Topologist Reference¶

Layouts¶

The layouts section describes the layouts in form of mapping. Layouts are reusable parts of the topology. Layouts represented in graph-like structure.

Topologies¶

The topologies section is a directory of the real topologies that might be resolved by end client. There are currently two kinds of topologies:

• normal topology (the !Topology tag) is represented by hirarchy of layouts and define the connections between nodes of the topology
• extern topology (the !Extern tag) is used to “extract” some public node addresses from other normal topollogy. So that clients, that connect to the topology never connect to some internal addresses regardless of what role and other parameters they specify.

Including files¶

You can put every layout and every topology into it’s own file and include them in the following way:

layouts: !GlobMap "./layouts/(*).yaml"
topologies: !GlobMap "./topologies/(*).yaml"

Note the following things:

• The name of the layout and topology is derived from the name of the file, in particular the part that is matched inside parenthesis.
• The path to file is relative to the directory where original configuration file is, not relative to the current working directory as one may expect