CERN's private OpenStack cloud offers more than 300,000 cores to over 3,500 users with services for compute, multiple storage types, baremetal, container clusters, and more.
The cloud supports CERN's web and administration services and is the tier 0 site in the WLCG.
This update will cover the evolution of the cloud over the past year, and the plans for the upcoming year.
dCache is an open-source distributed storage system for scientific use cases, actively used by large-scale experiments, including within the WLCG community. In 2018, developers started to introduce the concept of storage events within dCache. We are going to present this concept and see how it can be used to trigger automated workflows, with the example of a proof-of-concept implemented at...
The Magnum component of OpenStack is used to provision container orchestration clusters in the CERN cloud, with Kubernetes being by far the most popular cluster type.
This presentation will look at the new features in Magnum and Kubernetes which make it possible to create highly available Kubernetes clusters that are suitable for hosting critical services.
This includes node groups for...
