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Overview
EGI Federated Cloud resource providers are institutions and companies that contribute to the FedCloud providing access to their cloud infrastructure via the Federation.
Resource providers are free to use any Cloud Management Framework (OpenNebula, OpenStack, etc...) exposing interfaces compliant with the Federated Cloud Architecture.
At the moment this compliance is guaranteed by the following CMFs:
- OpenStack
- OpenNebula
- Synnefo
They all are able to exploit the following features:
- Federated AAI
- Information Discovery
- Monitoring
- Accounting
- VM Image Management
- OCCI
If you have any comments on the content of these pages, please contact operations @ egi.eu.
Join the EGI Federated Cloud as resource provider
Research institutions and companies are very welcome to join the EGI Federated Cloud as resource providers becoming Resource Centres (RC), and to get members of the Federated Cloud Task Force, contributing directly to the design, the creation and the implementation of the clouds federation.
The steps you will follow to join as RP are:
1. first contact with EGI; you can contact the EGI operations team (operations at egi.eu), expressing interest in joining EGI as a RP, and providing few details about
- the projects you are involved in
- the user communities you want to support (a.k.a. Virtual Organisations, VO)
- the technologies (Cloud Management Framework) you want to provide (see the Federated Cloud Architecture for more details)
- the services you would like to support (virtual machine management, storage...)
- details on the current status of your deployment (to be installed or already installed, already used or not, how it is used, who uses the services...)
EGI will reply to you providing proper guidance through all the following steps until the RP gets certified.
2. start the integration with the EGI infrastructure, with the help of the EGI operations team; to do this, the RP administrators will follow the two steps below, which can go in parallel.
- the EGI Cloud RP Installation Manual, installing and configuring the necessary connectors on top of the CMF, to get integrated into the EGI infrastructure
- the Resource Centre Registration and Certification procedure, providing the steps to register and certify the RP. In particular, the registration makes the EGI infrastructure aware of the new resources you offer, while the certification takes care of validating the registration itself and testing the behaviour of the services. In the context of the registration, you will become part of a Resource Infrastructure such as a National Grid Initiative (NGI), an EIRO, or a multi-country Resource Infrastructure.
Questions and Answers
Do I lose control on who can access my resources if I join federated cloud?
No. EGI users, grouped into Virtual Organizations, authenticate through a keystone VOMS plugin, which is just added to the regular keystone installation. EGI users are mapped to OpenStack tenants, so isolation is working the same way as for a regular OpenStack installation.
How many components do I have to install?
For OpenStack, you have to start a specific FedCloud Virtual Appliance and push a plugin into your Keystone installation to allow VOMS authentication.
Which components of my private cloud will interact with the federated cloud components?
TBD
How my daily operational activities will change?
TBD