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-# Instance Management Worker
+# Instance Management
 
-Placeholder
+This document describes the work performed by the Admin API 2 application and
+its associated Instance Management Worker for creating or deleting database
+instances.
+
+## Context
+
+```mermaid
+C4Container
+    title "Admin API Containers"
+
+    System(AdminConsole, "Ed-Fi Admin Console", "A web application for managing ODS/API Deployments")
+
+    System_Boundary(backend, "Backend Systems") {
+
+        Boundary(b0, "Admin API") {
+            Container(AdminAPI, "Ed-Fi Admin API 2")
+            Container(Instance, "Admin API Instance<br />Management Worker")
+        }
+
+        Boundary(b1, "ODS/API") {
+            System(OdsApi, "Ed-Fi ODS/API", "A REST API system for<br />educational data interoperability")
+            SystemDb(ods3, "EdFi_ODS_<instanceN>")
+        }
+
+        Boundary(b2, "Shared Databases") {
+            ContainerDb(Admin, "EdFi_Admin,<br />EdFi_Security")
+        }
+    }
+    
+    Rel(AdminConsole, AdminAPI, "Issues HTTP requests")
+
+    Rel(Instance, AdminAPI, "Reads instance requests,<br />Write instance status")
+    UpdateRelStyle(Instance, AdminAPI, $offsetY="20", $offsetX="10")
+
+    Rel(Instance, ods3, "Creates new ODS instances")
+    UpdateRelStyle(Instance, ods3, $offsetY="20", $offsetX="-50")
+
+    Rel(OdsApi, ods3, "Reads and writes")
+    UpdateRelStyle(OdsApi, ods3, $offsetX="10")
+    
+    Rel(AdminAPI, Admin, "Reads and writes")
+    UpdateRelStyle(AdminAPI, Admin, $offsetY="50", $offsetX="10")
+
+    Rel(OdsApi, Admin, "Reads")
+    UpdateRelStyle(OdsApi, Admin, $offsetY="20", $offsetX="-10")
+
+    UpdateLayoutConfig($c4ShapeInRow="2", $c4BoundaryInRow="2")
+```
+
+## Solution Design
+
+The Instance Management Worker will be a command line interface (CLI)
+application that should run on a schedule, e.g. as a Cron job in Linux or a
+Windows Scheduled Task. The Worker's responsibility is to create (and delete?)
+ODS database instances ("CREATE DATABASE"). It will pull task information from
+Admin API 2, and create databases directly in the RDBMS. It writes status back
+to Admin API 2 so that it can update the instance management tables used by the
+ODS/API (e.g. `dbo.OdsInstances`).
+
+Ultimately, the solution needs to be robust for error handling, retries, and for
+extensibility to support cloud-based platforms. These functions will be built
+out incrementally as needed based on feedback from the field:
+
+1. v1: assume single worker running at a time; fail gracefully; require manual
+   intervention when errors occur. Support for "on prem" type of connectivity
+   with PostgreSQL and MSSQL. Single Tenant.
+2. v2: Multi tenancy - creating additional Admin and Security databases.
+3. v2: more robust job handling for concurrent execution.
+4. v3: infrastructure for Cloud managed databases (e.g. AWS Aurora, AWS RDS,
+   Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Server, Azure PostgreSQL).
+
+> [!TIP]
+> The processes below refer to a new `Instances` table managed by Admin API 2.
+> Admin API 2 on startup queries the `dbo.OdsInstances` table used by the ODS/API
+> and inserts missing records into the new table. This solves a potential
+> synchronization problem between these two tables.
+
+### v1: Single Worker
+
+```mermaid
+sequenceDiagram
+    actor Console as Admin Console
+    actor Worker as Instance Management Worker
+    participant AdminAPI
+    participant EdFi_Admin
+
+    Console ->> AdminAPI: POST /adminconsole/instances
+    AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: INSERT INTO adminconsole.Instance
+    AdminAPI -->> Console: 202 Accepted
+
+    Worker ->> AdminAPI: GET /adminconsole/instances?status=pending
+    AdminAPI -->> Worker: instances
+
+    loop For Each Pending Instance
+        create participant DbServer
+
+        Worker ->> DbServer: create / copy database from template
+
+        Worker ->> AdminAPI: POST /adminconsole/instances/{id}/created
+
+        AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: BEGIN TRANSACTION
+        AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: INSERT INTO dbo.OdsInstances
+        AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: INSERT INTO dbo.OdsInstanceContext
+        AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: INSERT INTO dbo.OdsInstanceDerivative
+
+        note right of EdFi_Admin: Credentials for Health Check Worker        
+        rect rgb(191, 223, 255)
+            AdminAPI --> EdFi_Admin: INSERT INTO dbo.ApiClients
+            AdminAPI --> EdFi_Admin: INSERT INTO dbo.ApiClientOdsInstances
+        end
+
+        AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: UPDATE adminconsole.Instances (status, credentials)
+        
+        AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: COMMIT
+
+    end
+
+    AdminAPI -->> Worker: 200 OK
+```
+
+#### Health Check Client Credentials
+
+The section in blue is in support of the Health Check Worker, which needs client
+credentials for accessing the newly created instance. Admin API 2 will need to
+create and store new credentials each time an instance is created. For more information, see
+[Health Check Worker: Admin API's Responsibilities](./HEALTH-CHECK-WORKER.md#admin-apis-responsibilities)
+
+### v2: Multi Tenancy
+
+For multi-tenancy support, the Instance Management Worker must also create new
+instances of the `EdFi_Admin` and `EdFi_Security` databases. The Admin API
+`Instances` table will still be in the original `EdFi_Admin` database.
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> Community feedback may suggest creating a single new multi-tenant database
+> that is independent of any given `EdFi_Admin` instance / tenant. For now, the
+> simplest path forward is to use the first instance.
+
+```mermaid
+sequenceDiagram
+    actor Console as Admin Console
+    actor Worker as Instance Management Worker
+    participant AdminAPI
+    participant EdFi_Admin as EdFi_Admin DB
+    participant DbServer
+    participant EdFi_Admin_New as EdFi_Admin_<TenantId>
+
+    Console ->> AdminAPI: POST /adminconsole/instances
+    AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: INSERT INTO adminconsole.Instance
+    AdminAPI -->> Console: 202 Accepted
+
+    Worker ->> AdminAPI: GET /adminconsole/instances?status=pending
+    AdminAPI -->> Worker: instances
+
+    loop For Each Pending Instance
+
+        Worker ->> DbServer: create / copy ODS database from template
+        Worker ->> DbServer: create / copy Admin database from template
+        Worker ->> DbServer: create / copy Security database from template
+
+        Worker ->> AdminAPI: POST /adminconsole/instances/{id}/created
+
+        AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin_New: BEGIN TRANSACTION
+        AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin_New: INSERT INTO dbo.OdsInstances
+        AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin_New: INSERT INTO dbo.OdsInstanceContext
+        AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin_New: INSERT INTO dbo.OdsInstanceDerivative
+
+        note right of EdFi_Admin: Credentials for Health Check Worker        
+        rect rgb(191, 223, 255)
+            AdminAPI --> EdFi_Admin_New: INSERT INTO dbo.ApiClients
+            AdminAPI --> EdFi_Admin_New: INSERT INTO dbo.ApiClientOdsInstances
+        end
+
+        AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: UPDATE adminconsole.Instance (status, credentials)
+        
+        AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: COMMIT
+
+    end
+
+    AdminAPI -->> Worker: 200 OK
+```
+
+### v3: Concurrency
+
+The following diagram only displays the single tenant situation, but is easily
+adapted to multi-tenancy.
+
+```mermaid
+sequenceDiagram
+    actor Console
+    actor Worker
+    participant AdminAPI
+    participant EdFi_Admin
+    participant DbServer
+
+    Console ->> AdminAPI: POST /adminconsole/instances
+    AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: INSERT INTO adminconsole.Instance
+    AdminAPI -->> Console: 202 Accepted
+
+    Worker ->> AdminAPI: POST /adminconsole/instances/jobs/start
+    AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: Set lock and return rows from Instance
+    EdFi_Admin -->> AdminAPI: locked rows
+
+    AdminAPI -->> Worker: job information with job id
+
+    Worker ->> Worker: createDatabase
+    Worker ->> DbServer: create / copy database from template
+
+    Worker ->> AdminAPI: POST /adminconsole/instances/jobs/{id}/complete
+
+    AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: BEGIN TRANSACTION
+    AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: INSERT INTO dbo.OdsInstances
+    AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: INSERT INTO dbo.OdsInstanceContext
+    AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: INSERT INTO dbo.OdsInstanceDerivative
+    AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: INSERT key & secret INTO dbo.Application
+    
+    AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: UPDATE adminconsole.Instance.Document including key & secret
+    
+    AdminAPI ->> EdFi_Admin: COMMIT
+
+    AdminAPI -->> Worker: 200 OK
+```
+
+### v4: Cloud Support
+
+> [!INFO]
+> Placeholder. Assuming that the create database process will differ across the
+> managed database solutions.