Databases have to fulfil a variety of requirements in an operational system. They should be highly-available, redundant, suffer minimal downtime during maintenance/upgrade works and be easily recoverable in case of critical system failure.
All of these requirements can be realized with a PGPool II cluster that uses PostgreSQL as backends. The high-availability of the backends are provided...
Since the last HEPiX, CERNphone has evolved from an internal pilot to a widely growing service with hundreds of users across the Organization. In this presentation, we will cover the current deployment of the mobile clients and the status of the upcoming desktop application. We will also describe advanced use cases such as team calls for handling piquet services and replacing shared office...
CERN is redesigning its authentication and authorization infrastructures around open source software, such as Keycloak for the Single Sign On service and FreeIPA for the LDAP backend.
The project, which is part of the larger CERN MALT initiative, was first introduced at the HEPiX Autumn/Fall 2018 Workshop.
This talk will provide an overview of the new services, which are now in a production...
With more applications and services deployed in BNL SDCC that rely on authentication services, adoption of Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) became inevitable. While web applications can be protected by Keycloak (a open source Single sign-on solution directed by Red Hat) with its MFA feature, other service components within the facility rely on FreeIPA (an open source identity management...
