The document converter service provides conversion of most office and some engineering applications to PDF, PDF/A or PostScript. The service has been completely rewritten as an OSS [1] and is based on modern IT technology fostered by the CERN IT department. It is implemented as a RESTful API with a containerised approach using the Openshift technology, EOS storage to store documents and jobs,...
CCIN2P3 is one of the largest academic data centres in France. Its main mission is to provide the particle, astroparticle and nuclear physics community with IT services, including large-scale compute and storage capacities. We are a partner for dozens of scientific experiments and hundreds of researchers that make a daily use of these resources.
It is essential for users to have at their...
The CERN Linux Support is in charge of providing system images for all Scientific Linux and CentOS CERN users. We currently mostly test new images manually. To streamline their generation towards production, we're designing a continuous integration and testing framework which will automate image production, allow for more tests, running them more thoroughly, with more flexibility.
Some remarks to current design with printer subnets and managing CUPS configuration via CHEF data bags.
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