de.NBI Cloud federation through ELIXIR AAI.
Authentication
Authorization
Cloud Computing
ELIXIR
Life Sciences
OpenID Connect
de.NBI
de.NBI Cloud
Journal
F1000Research
ISSN: 2046-1402
Titre abrégé: F1000Res
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101594320
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2019
2019
Historique:
accepted:
16
05
2019
entrez:
30
7
2019
pubmed:
30
7
2019
medline:
13
6
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The academic de.NBI Cloud offers compute resources for life science research in Germany. At the beginning of 2017, de.NBI Cloud started to implement a federated cloud consisting of five compute centers, with the aim of acting as one resource to their users. A federated cloud introduces multiple challenges, such as a central access and project management point, a unified account across all cloud sites and an interchangeable project setup across the federation. In order to implement the federation concept, de.NBI Cloud integrated with the ELIXIR authentication and authorization infrastructure system (ELIXIR AAI) and in particular Perun, the identity and access management system of ELIXIR. The integration solves the mentioned challenges and represents a backbone, connecting five compute centers which are based on OpenStack and a web portal for accessing the federation.This article explains the steps taken and software components implemented for setting up a federated cloud based on the collaboration between de.NBI Cloud and ELIXIR AAI. Furthermore, the setup and components that are described are generic and can therefore be used for other upcoming or existing federated OpenStack clouds in Europe.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31354949
doi: 10.12688/f1000research.19013.1
pmc: PMC6635982
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
842Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
No competing interests were disclosed.
Références
F1000Res. 2018 Aug 6;7:
pubmed: 30254736