Creating and managing aggregation service hierarchies

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by one or more processor, cause at least one computing device to at least:

• identify a hierarchy of an aggregation service, the hierarchy comprising a plurality of agent nodes, a respective agent node being associated with at least one host computer through the hierarchy, wherein hardware of the aggregation service is represented as child hosts of leaf agent nodes;
• receive a host registration message comprising hardware resource information for a host computer;
• assign the host computer as a child host of a leaf agent node to execute resource consumers associated with the leaf agent node and parent agent nodes of the leaf agent node within the hierarchy, wherein the host computer is assigned based on:
• the hardware resource information of the host registration message indicating compliance with a requirement that the host computer must have access to at least one hardware resource accessible to an existing child host of the leaf agent node;
• and
• execute, on the host computer, a resource consumer associated with the leaf agent node.

A system, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory comprising executable instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause at least one computing device to at least:
• identify a hierarchy of an aggregation service, the hierarchy comprising a plurality of agent nodes, a respective agent node being associated with at least one host computer of the aggregation service;
• receive a host registration message comprising hardware resource information for a host computer;
• assign the host computer as a child host of a leaf agent node within the hierarchy, wherein the host computer is assigned based on:
• the hardware resource information of the host registration message indicating compliance with a requirement that the host computer must have access to at least one hardware resource accessible to an existing child host of the leaf agent node;
• and
• execute, on the host computer, a resource consumer associated with the leaf agent node.