Cloud-like Management of Grid Sites 2.0 Software

This document presents the features implemented for the automatic deployment and dynamic provision of grid services, and for the scalable cloud-like management of grid site resources in the second year of the project. These features, developed largely in Work Package 6 (WP6), are integrated into the StratusLab Toolkit by Work Package 4 (WP4)

Final Report on the Evaluation of StratusLab Products

Over the course of the project, the project's software releases have been evaluated against identified requirements and against the needs of real users. Most of the formal requirements have been satisfied, with work in the second year concentrating on extentions to commercial applications, multi-platform support and sandboxing. Feedback from applications running on the StratusLab cloud can be grouped into four broad categories: Ease of Use, Integration & Operation, Better Informaton Flow, and High-Level Services. These categories provide a broad roadmap for the evolution of the StratusLab cloud distribution past the end of the project

Cloud-like Management of Grid Sites 1.0 Software

This document presents the features implemented for the automatic deployment and dynamic provision of grid services, and for the scalable cloud-like management of grid site resources. These features, developed largely in Work Package 6 (WP6) are integrated into the StratusLab Toolkit by Work Package 4 (WP4). They involve cloud-like APIs, a service definition language, contextualization, scalable cloud frameworks, monitoring and accounting solutions. Some functionalities developed include TCloud and OCCI implementations, a library to process OVF, the Claudia framework and integration with Ganglia monitoring information

Quarterly Report (QR2)

In the second quarter, the project has successfully created the first public release of the StratusLab cloud distribution. To complement the release, the project participants have provided user support, deployed a reference infrastructure for outside users, and increased awareness of the release and the project. High-level features, including advanced service management features, have been defined and will be progressively added to the series of public releases leading to the v1.0 release due at the end of the first year

Reference Architecture for StratusLab Toolkit 2.0

The document describes the updated Reference Architecture for StratusLab v2.0, building on D4.1, which described the architecture for StratusLab v1.0. This document contains two main parts, the overall architecture identifying the required services and components of which it is composed, followed by detailed descriptions for each of these elements. For v2.0, the architecture is rationalized and consolidated. For example, the policy validation, caching and cloud storage are integrated as default features. The Appliance Repository is replaced by the cloud storage service. Several services are also added, such as cloud storage, virtual network provisioning and inter-cloud connectivity. From v1.0 to v2.0, incremental versions of the StratusLab distribution will be built and released to provide an increasing amount of the functionality identified in this document, alongside further improvements to the robustness of the distribution

Exploitation and Sustainability First Plan

This document describes StratusLab's plans for exploitation and sustainability during the second year of the project and beyond. The plans cover commercial exploitation, primarily through commercial integration and support; and non-commercial exploitation, through use in national and international research e-infrastructures: for operating grid resources on private clouds, and for running research-oriented community clouds. In addition, we plan exploitation through projects such as OpenNebula and EGI, and through training and future research. Sustainability is driven by a desire to support critical infrastructures and as a basis for future research. Public funding, private funding and community contributions will play a role in sustainability through promotion, community development, support of cloud strategies, national cloud infrastructures, and cloud research

Exploitation and Sustainability Final Plan

This document describes StratusLab's plans for exploitation and sustainability be- yond the project lifetime. The plans cover commercial exploitation, primarily through commercial integration and support; and non-commercial exploitation, through use in national and international research e-infrastructures: for operating grid resources on private clouds, and for running research-oriented community clouds. In addition, we plan exploitation through partner projects such as EGI and through training and future research. Plans are in place to ensure the sustainability of the critical infrastructures used by the project partners, users and collaborating projects. Similarly, the software outputs of the project have been identified and a plan for the future development of each has been created. These plans include the formation of an open-source StratusLab community, identifying key partners to continue development of specific components, identifying funding options (public, private and community contributions) for continued development and engaging with collaborating projects to ensure that they will contribute to the maintenance and development of the components that they use

Periodic Report (PR1)

Comprehensive report of the first year of the StratusLab project

Quarterly Report (QR8)

Comprehensive report on the progress of the StratusLab project in Q8

Quarterly Report (QR4)

In the fourth quarter, two beta releases of the StratusLab cloud distribution were made and deployed on the project's reference cloud infrastructure. The v1.0 production release is expected just after the close of Q4 due to the scheduling of the project's development sprints. The project continues to operate a production grid service over the StratusLab cloud distribution, demonstrating its functionality and stability. The project has also demonstrated the deployment of a grid site with the Claudia service manager with some autoscaling features