Federated Cloud Roadmap and Innovation

Overview

For users

For resource providers

Infrastructure status

Site-specific configuration

Architecture

Roadmap

The Task Force roadmap is organised in three, six-months long phases. Every six months, the output of the Task Force activities are disseminated through the EGI.eu conferences and a new phase is started.

Phase 1. Setup: Sept 2011 - March 2012
Scenarios	Workbenches	Capabilities
1	Running a pre-defined VM Image	VM Management
2	Managing users' data and VMs	Data management
3	Integrating information from multiple resource providers	Information discovery
4	Accounting across Resource Providers	Accounting
5	Reliability/Availability of Resource Providers	Monitoring
6	VM/Resource state change notification	Notification
7	AA across Resource Providers	Authentication and Authorisation
8	VM images across Resource Providers	VM sharing
Phase 2. Consolidation: April 2012 - Sept 2012
Engagement of user communities. Implementing interoperability among different cloud platforms (OpenNebula, OpenStack) federated into the test bed. Supporting the first use case: BNCweb. Draft of the Blueprint document. Live demo at the EGI Technical Forum 2012.
Phase 3. Integration: Sept 2012 - Mar 2013
Set up of a User Community Support Team (UCST) dedicated to the task force use cases. Integration of the federation test bed into the EGI infrastructure: GOCDB, SAM, APEL. Open the federation test bed to early adopters. Publication of the Blueprint document. Demo and poster for each supported use case. Tutorials and live demo of the federation test bed.