9–13 Jul 2018
Sofia, Bulgaria
Europe/Sofia timezone

DDS – The Dynamic Deployment System

10 Jul 2018, 16:00
1h
Sofia, Bulgaria

Sofia, Bulgaria

National Culture Palace, Boulevard "Bulgaria", 1463 NDK, Sofia, Bulgaria
Poster Track 1 - Online computing Posters

Speaker

Andrey Lebedev (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

Description

The Dynamic Deployment System (DDS) is a tool-set that automates and significantly simplifies a deployment of user-defined processes and their dependencies on any resource management system (RMS) using a given topology. DDS is a part of the ALFA framework.

A number of basic concepts are taken into account in DDS. DDS implements a single responsibility principle command line tool-set and API. The system treats users’ task as a black box – it can be an executable or a script. It also provides a watchdogging and a rule-based execution of tasks. DDS implements a plug-in system to abstract from RMS. Additionally it ships an SSH and a localhost plug-ins which can be used when no RMS is available. DDS doesn’t require pre-installation and pre-configuration on the worker nodes. It deploys private facilities on demand with isolated sandboxes. The system provides a key-value property propagation engine. That engine can be used to configure tasks at runtime. DDS also provides a lightweight API for tasks to exchange messages, so-called, custom commands.

In this report a detailed description, current status and future development plans of the DDS will be highlighted.

Primary authors

Anar Manafov (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) Andrey Lebedev (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

Presentation materials