1. PulpDist Architecture

PulpDist uses the Pulp repository management utilities to manage arbitrary directory trees (note that the underlying Pulp features it uses are under active development, so it still has quite a long way to go before it can be considered ready for production use beyond a very narrow set of use cases).

Each site in the mirror network has its own Pulp server. These servers handle the actual data transfers involved in the mirror network using a number of custom Pulp plugins.

The status of these transfers can then be monitored using a central web application which uses OAuth to retrieve information from each Pulp server in the network. An instance of the web app may also be run at each site with a Pulp mirror server for local status monitoring.