The University of Victoria operates an Infrastructure-as-a-Service scientific cloud for Canadian researchers, and a Tier 2 WLCG site for the ATLAS experiment at CERN. Over time we have taken steps to migrate the Tier 2 grid services to the cloud. This process has been significantly facilitated by basing our approach on Kubernetes. We have exploited the batch capabilities of Kubernetes to run...
An overview of the Coffea-Casa Analysis Facility hosted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This talk will cover the technical on-prem implementation details, including networking and storage, of this Kubernetes based cluster along with the application stack supporting HEP analysis users. Integration attempts with the local USCMS Tier2 and discussion of both where we want to go and where we...