StratusLab Face to Face Meeting

21 juin 2011, 14:00 → 23 juin 2011, 13:00 Europe/Zurich

Geneva, Switzerland

Marc-Elian Bégin (SixSq)

Focus of this meeting will be preparation for the first EC periodic review (4 July 2010) and planning for the second year of the project. The meeting will take place at the Fédérations des Entreprises Romandes (FER), downtown Geneva. Fédération des Entreprises Romandes Genève 98, rue de Saint-Jean Case postale 5278 - 1211 Genève 11 Here's a link to find the FER on Google Maps. To get there, the best way is to use public transport. You can use the Geneva Public Transport website to get directions.

mar. 21 juin

Year 2 Vision (TSCG)

Reference for previous technical & architecture-related discussions can be found in the TSCG meetings at [1]. In particular the following items will be covered to shape year 2 vision of Stratuslab (bottom-up):

• Site Deployment v2.0
• Security (Access control, group and user management, Authn methods)
• Storage
  • Scope & interface
  • Persistent storage
  • Volume management (snapshoting, hotplug) See [2] for a proposal
  • Implementation
• Caching strategies (machines and disks)
• VLANs
• Monitoring
• Accounting
• Messaging
  (* Appliance Repository - optional service?)
• Cloud interfaces for a Site
• API (OCCI, CDMI...)
• Formates (XML, OVF, HTML5...)
• Federation of Sites
• Architectures for federation & cloud bursting
• Common services & Site Integration - e.g. Image management:
  • MarketPlace
  • Interoperability with community efforts (e.g. HEPix)
  • Signing process (CLI, browser, etc)
  • Management of base images (maintenance, upgrades, etc)
  • Appliance Repositories

Other aspects:
* Machine and disk image interoperability and translation:
* Format (raw, VMWare, etc)
* Contextualisation (StratusLab, VMWare, EC2)
* Support to image creation
* Image format detection (STRATUSLAB-649
* Instance Snapshoting
* IP reservations
* User Support request tracking system

[1]

[2]

• VM instantiation performance issue with normal/large images

15:30 Break

Review Preparation

1 Supper

mer. 22 juin

Review Preparation

11:00 Break

2 Lunch

3 PMB

Sprint 15 demo: Integration and development work from the integration f2f

:-)

4 Deprecation / deletion of metadata manifests in the Marketplace

STRATUSLAB-632 As a Marketplace user I can deprecate/delete a metadata entry Discussion * Change validity dates to past (not true deprecation / deletion) * Use deprecation field * Changes to CLI and / or server * Deprecation status should be clear and definite in manifest file

Orateur: Dr Stuart Kenny (Trinity College Dublin)

15:30 Break

jeu. 23 juin

Sprint 15 demo

:-)

10:30 Break