GARR Federated Cloud

Giuseppe AttardiConsortium GARRDipartimento CSD

Firenze, 15/11/2016

GARR-X Progress Infrastructure

Storage

Sync & Share Service Costs GarrBox

~ 1 € / GB / year Commercial Sync & Share services:

0.22 € / GB / year: too cheap to match Google Suite for Education

unlimited free storage Evolution toward integrated collaborative

services that include storage: OneDrive + Office 365: 0.02 € / GB / year

Federated Cloud

Federated Cloud Goals Facilitate transition to cloud computing Share resources, preserving ownership Share DevOps best practices Provide support for managed PaaS Involve community in creating and sharing

repository of PaaS

Federated Cloud Architecture

Service Architecture

Reference Architecture

Automated Deployment Based on Juju/MAAS, a tool that simplifies

deployment of platforms (e.g. OpenStack, Kubernetes) or solutions (e.g. Data Analytics workloads)

Either on: own federated cloud region any major public cloud

In a few quick steps

Examples

OpenStack

Big Data Analytics

Cloud Offering Virtual Datacenter

Elastically scalable set of IaaS PaaS

Self provisioning of ready to use application packages

Conclusions Garr Federated Cloud is a service to the

research community Allows sharing resources and expertise Automates deployment and maintenance Allows sharing PaaS specific for research

and education Supports users in the transition towards

Cloud Computing