Abstract
This paper describes the work done to provide production-grade Cloud system for the scientific communities of the PLGrid Plus project. Our goal was both to show generic architecture of the Open-Nebula-based platform as well as enhancements we had to provide in order to meet the needs of our users and the requirements of the platform. Numerous solutions have been developed and integrated such as the authentication and authorization mechanism working with the standard project accounts and based on X.509 proxy certificates, a group synchronization solution, flexible way to access cloud instances despite the need to conserve IPv4 resources either through Network Address Translation (NAT) mechanism or the Virtual Private Network (VPN). We also describe some security implications, which are crucial in the case of cloud systems.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
The PL-Grid Infrastructure (2013), http://www.plgrid.pl/en
OpenNebula Project (2013), http://opennebula.org/
EGI FedCloud (2013), https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Fedcloud-tf:FederatedCloudsTaskForce
Technologies, Inc., OpenVPN (2014), http://openvpn.net/
Rescorla, E.: HTTP Over TLS [RFC 2818]. The Internet Society (2000), http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2818
Dierks, T., Rescorla, E.: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2 [RFC 5246]. The IETF Trust (2008), http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5246
Słota, R., Dutka, Ł., Wrzeszcz, M., Kryza, B., Nikolow, D., Król, D., Kitowski, J.: Storage management systems for organizationally distributed environments PLGrid PLUS case study. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Karczewski, K., Wasńiewski, J. (eds.) PPAM 2013, Part I. LNCS, pp. 724–733. Springer, Heidelberg (2013)
Harężlak, D., Ciepiela, E., Kasztelnik, M., Wilk, B., Bubak, M.: DataNet – GridSpace Data Management Framework. In: Bubak, M., Turała, M., Wiatr, K. (eds.) CGW 2012 Proceedings, pp. 43–44. ACK CYFRONET AGH, Kraków (2012)
The SynchroGrid domain grid within the PLGrid Plus project (in Polish), http://www.plgrid.pl/projekty/plus/dziedziny_nauki/synchrogrid
The AstroGrid-PL domain grid within the PLGrid Plus project (in Polish), http://www.plgrid.pl/projekty/plus/dziedziny_nauki/astrogrid-pl
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Meizner, J., Nabożny, M., Radecki, M., Szepieniec, T., Zdybał, M. (2014). Recent Advances of the Cloud Platform Delivered in the Infrastructure as a Service Model for the PL-Grid Scientific Communities. In: Bubak, M., Kitowski, J., Wiatr, K. (eds) eScience on Distributed Computing Infrastructure. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8500. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10894-0_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10894-0_4
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-10893-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-10894-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)