1.0
Summary of the main functionality provided for this version:
- Security
- Authentication is performed using the FutureGrid LDAP server
- Image Generation
- Generate CentOS and Ubuntu images
- Install software available in the official repositories and in the FutureGrid performance repository
- Image Repository
- Users can upload and retrieve images
- Images access can be configured by the owner of the image
- Images can be augmented with information about the software stack installed on them including versions, libraries,and available services
- Images information is maintained in a catalog that can be searched by users and/or other FG services.
- Includes a database to manage users for authorization, quota control and user’s roles
- Image Registration
- Adapt and register images on Eucalyptus, OpenStack, Nimbus and OpenNebula
- Adapt and register images on HPC infrastructure based on Moab/xCAT
- List of available kernels organized by infrastructure. New kernels can be added upon request
- Users can select the kernel they want to have in their images
- Rain
- Create customized environments by provisioning VMs/machines with the requested OS and services
- In the case of HPC, the basic functionality is a wrapper of the qsub command
- In the case of cloud, the basic functionality starts the VMs, designates one as the master, create a file with all the hosts involved and execute the job or ssh to the master. Therefore,
it could be used for HPC on Cloud