18th Quattor Workshop

30 Sept 2014, 07:35 → 2 Oct 2014, 18:00 Europe/Madrid

UAM

Almudena Del Rocio Montiel Gonzalez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES)), James Adams (STFC RAL), Michel Jouvin (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

This workshop is the main meeting of the Quattor community. Its main goal is discussing main issues, roadmap and community organization. It brings together Quattor developers and users and is open to everybody interested by Quattor. Sessions for tutorials and hands-on may be arranged.

Tuesday, 30 September

Welcome

Discussion

1 Update on Releases

Speaker: James Adams (STFC RAL)

2 UGent status report

Short update on quattor related things since last workshop, incl progress and future plans. (5m talk, mainly to avoid duplicate work)

Speaker: Stijn De Weirdt (Ghent University)

Slides quattor_workshop_sitereport_20140930.pdf

3 Quattor EL7 status

Update on current state and planned work wrt quattor and EL7 (15min)

Speaker: Stijn De Weirdt (Ghent University)

Slides quattor_el7_status_20140930.pdf

13:15 Lunch

Discussion

4 OpenNebula Integration

Speaker: Kenneth Waegeman (u)

5 moving forward with metaconfig and TT

Short discussion on current UGent work review possibility to make the a quattor project via todo list at https://github.com/hpcugent/config-templates/issues/68 (1 hour?)

Speaker: Stijn De Weirdt (Ghent University)

Slides quattor_towards_more_metaconfig_20140930.pdf

6 panc

Speaker: Cal Loomis (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

Slides 20140930-panc-v2.pdf 20140930-panc-v2.ppt

16:30 Coffee

Discussion

7 Template Library: Status and Future Directions

- Work done since the integratin into the release - Integration with Aquilon

Speaker: Mr Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))

Wednesday, 1 October

Discussion

8 Documentation and Communication

Review and next steps Oloh, Wikipedia... Tweeter: Tweet all news? Possibility to do it automatically? Remove forward of tweets to quattor-devel: use a sink address? Mailing lists out of SF?

9 Quattor inside Containers and Chroots

Speaker: Andrew David Lahiff (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

10 Main Issues and Next Milestones

Review of main issues and assignment to milestones Orphan and obsolete componnets

13:15 Lunch

Discussion

11 Release: Issues and Milestones

16:00 Coffee

Aquilon

Discussions related to Aquilon

12 Console & JSON

Speaker: James Adams (STFC RAL)

13 Service Orchestration

14 Easing Adoption

Speaker: James Adams (STFC RAL)

Thursday, 2 October

Hands On & Tutorials

15 metaconfig and TT in practise: hands-on walkthrough

A walkthrough of https://github.com/hpcugent/config-templates#development-example Could flow over in hacking activity to replace older components with metaconfig and TT (given this is a hand-on, and things will go wrong, at least 1 hour)

Speaker: Stijn De Weirdt (Ghent University)

16 Next workshop

Speaker: Mr Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))

13:00 Lunch

Hacking Session