Federated Cloud IntraCloud Networking
Overview | For users | For resource providers | Infrastructure status | Site-specific configuration | Architecture |
Scenarios: | • Federated AAI | • Accounting | • VM Image Management | • Brokering | • IntraCloud Networking |
• Monitoring | • VM Management | • Data Management | • Information Discovery | • Security |
Scope
This is a fresh activity, please understand that solutions for this scenario are not yet available. They are mostly in design or development stage.
The IntraCloud Networking Scenario deals with virtual machine networking within the environment of a single provider (hence the intra prefix). It focuses on achieving two main goals:
- Being able to list available networks, pick one and connect virtual machines to it.
- Being able to create new [private] networks, even with non-trivial topologies.
The scenario is also looking at other services that could be provided:
- Useful appliances (virtual network elements such as NAT/DHCP, FlowMon, …)
- Recommendations (tools?) for VM images to make them better prepared for different properties of networks in federated environments
- Security groups / profiles to allow owners to restrict the behavior of their VMs in networks.
With a more practical approach, the work can be divided thus:
Network Orchestration for Open Stack-based sites
Open Stack supports essential network orchestration through, e.g., Neutron. However, OCCI compatibility is missing. Contributions to occi-os are expected from the INDIGO project -- those will be atopted by FedCloud
Network Orchestration for Other CMFs, namely OpenNebula with rOCCI
Again building on the plans in INDIGO, a static solution for cloud sites should be available relatively early:
Static Solution
A simple service is envisioned to maintain a pool of private networks created manually by administrators. These will be available to cloud users to interconnect VMs, and returned to the pool once freed. The service will be accessible through a network-specific rOCCI backend.
Network Orchestration in Sites with rOCCI
Existing orchestrators will be considered and a suitable solution (Neutron, Open Daylight, …) will be selected and OCCI-enabled through rOCCI. This will make it possible to create and use networks on-demand in FedCloud sites.
Members
Role | Institution | Name |
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Scenario leader | CESNET | Zdenek Sustr |
Forced Collaborator | CESNET | Boris Parak |
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Roadmap
The roadmap will be specified soon. Many of the tools and solutions to bue used in this scenario are in fact expected from the INDIGO-DataCloud project. Reasonably detailed roadmap will be provided after INDIGO publishes its plan of work.
Documentation
There is currently no documentation specific to this Scenario.
A subset of what it entails is possible with existing tools. Therefore, you may try consulting: