Components

Airy Core comes with all the components you need for a fully-featured conversational platform.

Definition

A component is a Helm Chart (a package of Kubernetes resources) that represents a functional unit in an Airy instance.

Component types

Airy Core contains the following components:

• Connectors

  Connect anything to your Airy Core - from our Open-Source Airy Live Chat Plugin to Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Google's Business Messages, IBM Watson Assistant, and more. This is all possible through an ingestion platform that heavily relies on Apache Kafka to process incoming webhook data from different sources. We make sense of the data and reshape it into source independent contacts, conversations, and messages.

• APIs to access your data

  An API to access conversational data with blazing fast HTTP endpoints.

• WebSockets to power real-time applications

  A WebSocket server that allows clients to receive near real-time updates about data flowing through the system.

• Outbound webhook integration to connect custom apps

  A destination webhook integration server that allows its users to programmatically participate in conversations by sending messages (the webhook integration exposes events users can listen to and react programmatically.)

• UI: From an inbox to dashboards

  Not every message can be handled by code, this is why Airy comes with different UIs ready for you and your teams to use.

Installation

For installation purposes Airy Core is packaged in a Helm chart which creates all the necessary Kubernetes resources. However, every component is an independent entity and can be installed or uninstalled separately. Every component is packaged in its own independent Helm chart and belongs to a repository. By default, the airy-core repository is added with the components that can be found under https://helm.airy.co.

You can see all the available components either from the Catalog in the Control center. From the Control center you can also install, uninstall, configure, enable or disable the components.

The following components are part of Airy Core and they cannot be uninstalled:

• airy-controller
• api-admin
• communication
• api-websocket
• frontend-inbox
• frontend-control-center

Here is a list of the open source components which can be added to Airy Core:

• api-contacts
• integration-source-api
• integration-webhook
• media-resolver
• sources-chatplugin
• sources-facebook
• sources-google
• sources-twilio
• sources-viber
• sources-whatsapp

More information about the components API can be found here.