The Laboratory for Internet Computing hosts a large HPC infrastructure that supports research activities of both members, external collaborators and affiliated scientific consortia. This talk will focus on the recent efforts of the lab to establish a resilient OpenStack-based Cloud infrastructure (Nephelae), the architectural design, supporting DevOps technologies and best practices. Among others, this talk will discuss recent technology concepts such as: OpenStack, MaaS, Docker, LXC/LXD, LDAP, Chef.io, Nagios, VXLANs, NetApp, etc.

Room: 148
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Theme: Cloud Infrastructure
Trainer: Dr Nicholas Loulloudes

Type: Hands on - individual laptops will be needed

MATERIALS:
- O/S
- Ubuntu 16.04.01 LTS
- ZFS Storage substrate
- Storage System
- IBM Series N Storage System Redbook (your first go-to understand the Storage system architecture / DataOnTap features)
- NetApp from the Ground Up
- NetApp Best Practices
- NetApp Space Calculator
- Virtualization
- LXD 2.0 - Introduction (your first go-to resource for LXD | highly reccomended)
- LXD - Official Intro
- LXD - Creating the World’s Fastest OpenStack
- Linux Containers via LXC and Libvirt
- Metal As a Service (MaaS)
- MaaS Official Page
- Directory Services (OpenLDAP)
- OpenLDAP
- How To Install and Configure OpenLDAP and phpLDAPadmin on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server (applicable to 16.04)
- Installing OpenLDAP on Debian with OLC (applicable also to 16.04)
- How to backup and restore your LDAP database
- LDAP (slapd) creating users with access to specific trees
- ldapsearch is your friend
- SSH public key authentication with LDAP on Ubuntu
- Infrastructure Automation - Chef.io
- Chef Official Site
- Overview
- Chef Knife
- Chef Cookbooks Supermarket
- Recipes for LiNC (@ GitHub)
- Chef Vault
- Monitoring with Nagios
- Official Site
- Nagios Plugins
- Nagios Configuration Tutorial
- How To Install Nagios 4 and Monitor Your Servers on Ubuntu 14.04 (applicable to 16.04)
- Configure hostgroups for Nagios
- Openstack
- Openstack Mitaka (currently installed version)
- Mitaka Documentation (Great overall documentation on Mitaka and it's services)
- Openstack Multi-Node configurations