The ALASCA Tech-Talks provide a platform to showcase solutions that have the potential to improve the digital sovereignty of cloud infrastructures and services, as well as for use cases that rely on these digital sovereign infrastructures and services.
This is where techies meet techies. They are united by their conviction in open source software for the operation of cloud applications and the common goal of establishing digital sovereignty in Germany and Europe.
The ALASCA Tech-Talks have been held once a month since January 2023 and enjoy a loyal listenership. You too can become part of our ALASCA Tech-Talks - whether as a listener, co-discussant or speaker. We look forward to seeing you!
Look forward to the following speaker in May:
Abstract Tech-Talk #16
Miguel Caballer (Researcher at UPV-GRyCAP)
Applications and services require customised computational environments that can be provisioned from multiple cloud providers (e.g. on-premises clouds, public clouds, federated platforms). However, the use of these platforms requires users to have non-trivial skills. For that, the Infrastructure Manager (IM) is a tool that deploys complex and customised virtual infrastructures on multiple back-ends. The IM automates the Virtual Machine Image (VMI) selection, deployment, configuration, software installation, monitoring and update of virtual infrastructures. It supports various back-ends, thus making user applications Cloud agnostic. In addition, it features DevOps capabilities, based on Ansible, to enable the installation and configuration of all the user-required applications, providing the user with a fully functional infrastructure. The IM has been extensively adopted in European research projects, and it is being used in production in the EGI Federated Cloud (one of the largest distributed computing infrastructures for research), to support the deployment of customised virtual infrastructures with popular software (e.g. Kubernetes, Daskhub, JupyterHub, Galaxy, etc.).
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