Fedcloud-tf:FederatedCloudsTaskForce

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Mandate

EGI is a federation of national and domain specific resource infrastructure providers comprised of individual resource centres. Many of these resource centres have been experimenting with the deployment of virtualised management environments to improve the local delivery of services. Many of EGI’s current and new user communities would like to access the flexibility provided by virtualisation across the infrastructure on demand in a ‘cloud like’ environment. Federating these individual virtualised resources is a major priority for EGI that has started with the EGI User Virtualisation Workshop, and the drafting of the EGI Cloud Integration Profile.

Objectives:

• develop a blueprint document for EGI resource centres that wish to securely federate and share their virtualised environments as part of the production infrastructure;
• define and prototype in conjunction with the relevant parties integrations with EGI’s existing production infrastructure for solutions for monitoring, accounting and advertising through the information services virtualised resources;
• investigate and catalogue requirements for future new community facing services for infrastructure deployment;
• provide feedback to relevant technology providers (both within and external to the TCB) on their implementations and any changes needed for deployment into the production infrastructure;
• identify and work with user communities willing to be early adopters of the resulting virtualised infrastructure to help prioritise its development;
• identify issues that need to be addressed by other areas of EGI (e.g. policy, operations, support & dissemination).

Activities

The Task Force operations take place on its mailing list and on a weekly conference call.

Member

= Attended     = Apologies     = Not attended     = Not member

October 2011

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December 2011

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Chair

Technology Manager

Operations Officer

Community Officer

CESGA (IBERgrid)

CESNET (NGI CZ)

CloudSigma

CYFRONET (NGI PL)

DANTE

DWDG

EGI-InSPIRE JRA1

FZ Jülich

IGI

IN2P3 (NGI FR)

INFN/CNAF

KTH

OeRC (UK NGI)

OGF DCIFed

SARA (NGI NL)

SIENA Project

STFC (UK NGI)

StratusLab

TCD (NGI IE)

WeNMR

Cloud Resources Status

The Task Force is developing a resource monitor solution for the clouds federation based on Nagios. Meanwhile, here a table showing the current status of the cloud resources made available by the resource providers that have joined the Task Force. This table is updated weekly by the resource providers.

Provider	= Available     = Not available	User registration	User access	VM availability	Elastic IPs	Object Storage	Permanent Storage
CESGA (IBERgrid)
CESNET (NGI CZ)
CloudSigma
CYFRONET (NGI PL)
DWDG
FZ Jülich
IGI
IN2P3 (NGI FR)
KTH
OerC (UK NGI)
SARA (NGI NL)
TCD (NGI IE)

Task Force Resources

1. Wiki: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Fedcloud-tf:FederatedCloudsTaskForce
2. Mailing list: fedcloud-tf@mailman.egi.eu
3. Meeting planner: EGI Indico; https://www.egi.eu/indico/categoryDisplay.py?categId=56
4. Conference calls: On a weekly basis, every Tuesday at 11:00 CET, using EGI.eu's HiDef conferencing system (Call-in details will be made available on the respective Indico entries)
5. Task Force Management & Actions tracker OERC Basecamp, https://oerc.basecamphq.com/projects/7732005-egi-federated-cloudstask-force/log

References

1. Task Force Mandate: Permanently available at https://documents.egi.eu/document/720
2. Other EGI Virtualisation activities: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_Virtualisation_Activities