Progressively moving towards a distributed architecture

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Time constraints forced us to move Quartermaster to the cloud progressively without breaking the current monolithic architecture.
Practically, this means that new modules (i.e., builders, analyzers, and reporters) will reside in dedicated Docker containers rather than ending up in the qmstr-master image, preventing the latter from increasing in size.

Modules orchestration

Modules are orchestrated by the "QMSTR" component depicted above: it uses a RabbitMQ message queue instance to dictate the order of execution of modules.
The configuration file declares which modules need to run; Quartermaster orchestrates modules during runtime.

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