Phase ii is the public phase of the pilot running until the end of March 2013. If you want to participate, please, contact the project coordinator at TERENA, Peter Szegedi (szegedi@terena.org).
Discussion mailing list (cloud-pilot@terena.org) has been set up for Phase ii. Pilot participants can subscribe to the list here.
How to participate
There are three ways to participate.
- Bring your test users and try out the TERENA installation of the service. The platform is federated, all the national federations are connected as well as the guest federations such us Google, Facebook, etc. So, if you have e.g., a Google account you can try this service out. Please do note that, due to service restrictions, all the actual test users must be whitelisted. For the procedure to be whitelisted please contact Peter Szegedi (szegedi@terena.org)
Get access to the TERENA installation and go to https://tc2.terena.org
- Attach your own storage back-end to the platform installed at TERENA Offices. Currently, the service uses a local file system at TERENA Offices and it has the possibility to store encrypted data in the Amazon S3 cloud. If you want to connect your own storage back-end, you have to develop the bridge between the cloud broker platform and your data storage facility. For the interface/protocol description and detailed technical information please participate in the mailing list discussion.
Check out the preliminary service delivery scenarios.
- Get familiar with the code. The code is open source written in Scala and runs on top of the JVM. You can get familiar with the code step by step. We provide a single downloadable VM image, we also provide the clone of the TERENA system installation (on 2 VMs, with federated access), and you can go to Github for the source code and documentation. Use the Google group for questions.
Get familiar with the code
The aim is to gradually build up a community with developers who will eventually become "co-owners" of the code. It is expected that the potential co-owners' organisations contribute to the code maintenance and development with man-power and/or money. There is a three-step approach to get familiar with the code (it is also a kind of selection process).
0) Try the service out (the TERENA installation) - you must be whitelisted.
1) Downloadable development VM image (non-federated) - soon be available
2) Clone of the TERENA system installation (2 VM images + support for federation) - to be reconsidered.What kind of images would be useful???
3) Source code and documentation is available on Github under Apache Licenses, Version 2.0. There is limited free support via the Google group. PSNC also maintains an Installation Guide.
Documentation
The full documentation is available at Github Wiki.
List of (expected) test installations
| Organisation | Contact person(s) | Note | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSNC | Maciej Brzeźniak | ||
List of pilot participants
The following organisations expressed their interest in the pilot (as of 18 June):
| Organisation | Contact person(s)
| Initial interest |
|---|---|---|
| NRENs | ||
| AARnet Australia | Guido Aben  | Certainly any high latency tests you might want to perform are well entrusted to us. |
| ACOnet | Kurt Bauer Christian Panigl Arsen Stasic | We'll start with - Bring your test users but probably will also try to - Attach your own storage back-end later. |
| ARNES | Jernej Porenta Peter Kacin | We are interested in Terena Trusted cloud drive pilot. From our side, Peter Kacin (cc) will be the guy to talk to, so please add both of us to the mailing list. |
| BELNET | Mario Vandaele Dirk Dupont | |
| CARNet | Branko Radojevic Valentin Vidic Marko Furic | |
| CESNET | Jakub Peisar | |
| CSC | Sami Saarikoski Sormunen Toni | Try out |
| ERNET India | Praveen Misra | I had been exploring different opportunities of collaborating on the cloud technologies and found interest in cloud pilot. Do let me know if its possible and feasible for us to get involved with this initiative. |
FCCN | João Pagaime | At this stage we looking for information for a possible more official commit in the future. As far as the reasons go, we already use filesender and are happy with it, and we see interest from the community on storage services beyond commercial available services. The planned contribution is to test the software, set up a test storage backend and generally participate on the initiative (it's worth to mention that we don't have dedicated resources devoted for this. That is to say that we would have difficulty on doing resource hungry taks |
| GRNET | Panos Louridas | We are interested in participating, and our focus will be in the following item from the Phase II description: Attach your own storage back-end to the platform installed at TERENA Offices Specifically, to attach our own OpenStack-derived platform as a storage back-end. |
| NIIF | Ivan Marton Szabolcs Székelyi |
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| PSNC | Maciej Brzeźniak Stanisław Jankowski
Pawel Berus | We might offer some test storage resources controlled by OpenStack Swift and/or plug into your system some WebDAV enabled storage. In addition we might spend some hours on reviewing the code and/or penetration testing of your pilot installation. SECURITY AUDIT; Our current plans regarding the local installation include: - doing some stress / functional testing - checking if your solution will work with S3-enabled OpenStack swift - performing a security audit (I am adding Gerard and Pawel from security department in CC) Congratulations to PSNC for the first installation of the tool at an NREN location! |
| RedIRIS | Antonio Fuentes Bermejo | Currently we are driving our efforts to bring cloud services, and we are studying what kind of cloud services could be offered to the RedIRIS Research community. |
| RNP Brazil | Roberto Araujo | Recently, we constructed a cloud storage based on the OpenStack Swift. We took a look on the phase 2 webpage and noted that it is possible to integrate other clouds to the TERENA Trusted Cloud Drive. We are interested in integrating our cloud to your solution. Thus, we would like to know what are the requisites for this. |
| SURFnet | Rogier Spoor Andres Steijaert | |
| SWITCH | Patrik Schnellmann Christian Rohrer Alessandro Usai Michael Stuecheli | We are interested for the following reason: Higher Education Users are increasinglgy asking for a cloud shared storage. I'm thinking about students, but also researchers and teaching staff may be interested in this. We are evaluating which solution could adress the need of users best in the future. The TTCD is one possibility and I'm interested about the future developments in that project and the uptake of other NRENs of TTCD, how they see the place of a service based on the TTCD in their portfolio. |
| Universities | ||
| EPFL | Carlos Aguado | I am part of the Blue Brain Project, based at EPFL. Our long-term goal is to build a facility to help the worldwide community of neuroscientists work in the understanding of the brain and its processes. My understanding of this second phase of the pilot is that will enable secure cloud-like sharing based on established federations and this sounds very interesting to me. Especially from the perspective of federations and how insightful could be for us in moving towards our long-term goals. |
| University of Malta | Dave Mifsud | |
| Other | ||
| Scre | Damir Zagar | I will get back on Monday with details in what parts we'll get involved (and will find some human-ware available). |
| CESCA | Jordi Guijarro Lorenzo J. Cubero | In this second phase, we can initially collaborate providing feedback from our constituency test users and after attaching our own storage backend. |
Waiting for e-mail confirmations from: HEAnet, University of Malaga, Kaunas University of Technology