Clients

Deployment Automation clients include the following:

• Web browser: a Rich Internet Application (RIA) that maintains much of its functionality in the browser
• Command line: provides most of features found in the browser-based GUI

Clients:

• communicate with the server through HTTP or HTTPS
• may be deployed locally, on the same LAN as the server
• may be deployed remotely
• interact with RESTful (representational state transfer) services on the server as needed