Glenna2/Team-Meeting-2018-01-18

Meeting Jan 18th 2018 at 10:00-11:30 CET

Participants Dan, Raymond,

Channels: Google Hangouts: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/g4g5nyl5glc66wqgbqk4yjvb4ua

1. Review of last meeting and News

2. Glenna2 IaaS discussion

Dan gave overview of Glenna2

Raymond: OpenStack Passport Geant project (Olav Kvittem)

AP: Talk to Kalle CSC is mentioned

AP: send Raymond OpenStack book excerpt

Raymond: Openstack develiopment at UiB and UiO currently fundedd exclusively by universities

Almost only UiO and UiB use the resoources at the momemnt .

UH Sky worked on HPC codes in Azure Comparison between bare metal and Azure Availability zone with Azure nodes. Potential Rally to UiB Raymond Phenomenal in

Raymond good slots: Tues-Fri 23-26.1.

KubeNow - Easier Kubernetes Deployment

• KubeNow (https://github.com/kubenow/KubeNow) framework which is a cloud agnostic platform used for deploying a Kubernetes cluster using provisioning tools such as Terraform and Ansible on a cloud providers IaaS. It has been developed under the umbrella of the EU project PhenoMeNal (http://phenomenal-h2020.eu) and platform aims to simplify a Kubernetes deployment. KubeNow currently works on commercial clouds such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Engine (GCE) as well as on private OpenStack installations.

• Kubernetes is an open source platform that automates Linux container operations.
  • Groups of hosts can be clustered together running Linux containers, and Kubernetes helps with managing those clusters.
  • These clusters can span hosts across public, private, or hybrid clouds.

• • Kubernetes is an active topic at all the Nordic e-infrastructure providers

Dissemination

AP: Include story on UH-IaaS in newsletter

NeIC AHM 2018

NeIC All Hands Meeting January 29 - February 01, 2018 at Skeikampen, Norway coming up.

Next Meeting Raymond good slots: Tues-Fri 23-26.1.