1. StratusLab Sustainability
C. Loomis (CNRS/LAL)
EGI Technical Forum (Prague)
20 September 2012

2. Contents Collaboration Infrastructures Software
Goal of the collaboration
Structure of post-project collaboration
Infrastructures
Tooling (code mgt., build, test)
Reference cloud infrastructures
Software
High-level roadmap
Evolution by service
Support & Communication
System administrators and users

3. StratusLab Project  Collaboration
Goal
Support the StratusLab open-source, IaaS cloud distribution
Evolve and improve the software for both system administrators and users
Open Collaboration
Supported by MoU between partners
Institutes/companies expected to providing resources to sign MoU
Individuals may be required to sign contributor’s agreement.
Sufficient Resources Committed
Developers for all components identified and committed
Reference cloud and testing infrastructures to continue operation
CNRS (FR)
GRNET (GR)
SIXSQ (CH)
TCD (IE)

4. Tooling Code Management Build & Test Binary Package Distribution
All code migrated to GitHub pages (
Use GitHub issues for bug/feature tracking
Build & Test
Use Travis-CI for continuous builds and unit testing
Hudson for release builds
Nexus for artifact repository
SlipStream for system-level tests and validation
Binary Package Distribution
Yum repositories for CentOS 6.x and OpenSuSE 12.x

5. Reference Cloud Infrastructures
GRNET
Will provide StratusLab cloud on existing hardware
Resources and support available on best-effort basis
Grid site over the cloud will be decommissioned
CNRS/LAL
Current production cloud will increase in size
Long-term and/or large-scale use limited to “local” users
Short-term, limited test accounts provided to others
5/7 support for “local” users; best-effort support for demo accounts
Others
Bioinformatics sites, Helix Nebula, …

6. Software: High-level Roadmap
New/Improved Features
Watches/notification for state changes and service events
Better resource utilization overview and management
Fine-grained accounting of resources
Improved stability and robustness of services
Ability to support different virtual machine managers
Interfaces
Complete REST interface (browser and API) for all services
Provide EC2 adaptor to REST interface
Documentation
Better organization (‘general’ on web site; ‘specific’ in code repos.)
Provide support for several standard deployment scenarios

7. Individual Components
Authentication/REST Interface
Integrated view of all site services via REST interface
Client
Adaptations for changes in other services
Better Windows support
Storage
Better coordination and visibility of various services (pdisk, iSCSI, …)
Improved support for advanced storage services (NetApp, …)
MarketPlace
Move to Cassandra to facilitate federation, simplify implementation
Likely replacement of SPARQL search with full text search

8. Individual Components
Metadata
Split from MarketPlace repository
Improved documentation on extending info. in image manifests
Standard Base Images
Fully automate build process (ttylinux, CentOS, OpenSuSE, Ubuntu)
Better publicize the collaboration’s recommended images
Documentation/High-level Tests
Bring together tutorial, use-cases, and benchmarks
Automate testing of standard workflows

9. Individual Components
OpenNebula
Integrate with newer versions of OpenNebula
Clarify interfaces between StratusLab and OpenNebula
Support for OpenNebula through UCM
Claudia
Direct support removed from StratusLab distribution
Claudia (and associated monitoring) to be done through 4Cast

10. Support and Communication
Mailing lists, website, and twitter for announcements
Revamp website to focus on providing information to users (see new site:
Support
Current list to remain for technical questions and problems
Help Wanted!
Provide feedback on how you’d like to get information and help from StratusLab.

11. Conclusions StratusLab Collaboration Provide Feedback Contacts
Effort committed to continue development and support
Collaboration to be formalized through MoUs
Join the collaboration as an institute or individual
Provide Feedback
On overall roadmap or for individual components
How you want to get information and support from the collaboration
Contacts
Website:
Support: