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| First survey of site configurations available. Defining recommended configuration for sites
| First survey of site configurations available. Defining recommended configuration for sites

Revision as of 21:54, 20 September 2017

Overview For users For resource providers Infrastructure status Site-specific configuration Architecture



Architecture Technology Roadmap FedCloud Task Force




The EGI Federated Cloud Roadmap is available at http://go.egi.eu/fedcloud-roadmap and is defined but the TCB-Cloud board.

TCB-Cloud

This board meets regularly to define the short-, mid- and long-term plans for the technology and architectural evolution of the cloud service in EGI. The current roadmap covers the 2017 period and provides hints for the upcoming years

  • Chairman: E. Fernandez/EGI Foundation
  • Cloud standards, OCCI, OpenNebula: B. Parak/CESNET
  • Cloud standards, CDMI, data management: B. Kryza/CYFRONET
  • Cloud integration modules: A. Lopez/CSIC
  • VM Image Management, Cloud marketplace: M. Chatziangelou/IASA
  • INDIGO DataCloud: G. Donvito/INFN
  • EGI Technology and Operations: V. Spinoso/INFN, T. Ferrari/EGI Foundation
  • Cloud providers:
    • M. Antonacci/INFN, RECAS (OpenStack)
    • J. Pansanel/France Grilles, IN2P3 (OpenStack);
    • V. Tran/II SAS (OpenStack)
    • K. Koumantaros/GRNET (Synnefo)

The board develops the roadmap in consultation with:

  • the [EGI Federated Cloud task force]
  • the User Community Board (UCB) and the team in charge of cloud support
  • the Operations Management Board (OMB)
  • the Security Coordination Team and AAI experts
  • the Service and Solution Board (SSB)
  • commercial cloud providers

Short term roadmap (2017)

Usability and accessibility of the EGI Cloud Service

These actions seek to improve the usability and accessibility of the EGI Cloud by removing some of the identified barriers for adoption.

Name Description Status
AppDB VMOps A single GUI for the EGI Cloud that allows users to manage VMs on different providers just without the need to deal with X.509 certificates and completely integrated with the AppDB Cloud Marketplace. In beta testing for selected VOs. Available on request for new VOs
OCCI 1.2 The latest version of the OCCI standard facilitates the development of new clients and introduces new features such as snapshotting and resizing VMs. In production for OpenStack and Synnefo, release candidate for OpenNebula
OpenID Connect Support The support of OIDC at the resource providers will allow use of federated identity mechanisms and integration with EGI CheckIn, thus completely removing the need for user's X.509 certificates and easing the development and deployment of web portals without token translation mechanisms. OIDC also allows using federated identity to interact with Command Line Interface tools or directly with APIs Pilot OpenStack sites under integration. Synnefo and OpenNebula support under development
IaaS Federated Access Tools This layer of the EGI Cloud Architecture hides the underlying heterogeneity from users and provides common ways of managing different resources. A set of tools to be used in this layer needs to be investigated and documented. First set of tools evaluated and documented
Application portability Users have difficulties on porting applications from one provider to another due to the big heterogeneity of the site configuration (especially in network). First survey of site configurations available. Defining recommended configuration for sites

Site integration

EGI maintains a collection of open source components that facilitate the integration of different Cloud Management Frameworks into the Federation. The following table collects the main developments in this area:

Name Description Status
CloudKeeper CloudKeeper is the replacement for the vmcatcher tool for managing VM Images at sites. This component has a more flexible architecture and is ready to be enhanced as needed in the future Released into CMD, deployed in the Infrastructure
Monitoring probes New probes are needed for better assessment of the availability and reliability of the sites. Namely:
  • check the correct subscription to VM image lists
  • complete checking of OCCI types
  • use of EGI-provided images for testing VM instantiation functionality
Probes in testing phase, to be moved to production as sites are stable
Monitoring fedcloud.egi.eu VO Monitoring is performed using ops VO, but it may not detect issues in other VOs relevant to the users Further developments needed in the monitoring framework. Stalled
Glue 2.1 schema The Glue2.1 schema includes several improvements for publishing missing information about the providers and the VOs supported. First prototype implementation ready. Transition plan needs to be defined
Information discovery transport BDII is found unsuitable for the current cloud infrastructure and alternatives need to be assessed No progress
Accounting for Long Running VMs Accounting information for VMs running for more than one month is incorrectly assigned the first month the VM has been running. First implementation ready, testing scalability for going into production

Long term roadmap (2018 onwards)