Proj-2012-2013-OAR-Cloud

=OAR Cloud Project=

This project aims at creating a light cloud computing architecture on top of the batch scheduler OAR.

=Project Members= This project is proposed by:

Olivier Richard - Teacher and researcher in RICM's Polytech Grenoble training

Three students from RICM are working on it:


 * Jordan Calvi (RICM4)
 * Alexandre Maurice (RICM4)
 * Michael Mercier (RICM5)

=Conception=

Context
There is two kind of actors that are dealing with OAR cloud, users and administrators. The F.u* and the F.a* are the user and Administrator features describe below.



User
Main features:

F.u.0 Create an account

F.u.1 Launch and configure one or more instances

F.u.2 Deploy an image on one or more instances

F.u.3 Setup alarms based on rules using metrics

F.u.4 Being inform by e-mail and/or notification for interesting events

Advanced features:

F.u.5 Automated resize of an instance (adapt the resources) using predefined rules and schedule

F.u.6 Load balancing between several instances

F.u.7 Advanced Network configuration for user: ACL, subnets, VPN...

F.u.8 Modify and save images

Administrator
F.a.0 Create/delete user account

F.a.1 Add/remove and manage resources

F.a.2 Visualize resources and instances states

F.a.3 Install and update nodes operating systems

F.a.4 Handle users access rights

F.a.5 Setup alarms based on rules using metrics

F.a.6 Being inform by e-mail and/or notification for interesting events

=TODO list=


 * Explore Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud API


 * Understand technologies:
 * OAR
 * LXC
 * Libvirt
 * OpenVSwitch


 * find out how to handle dynamic jobs

=Journal=

04/02

 * We have specified the subject
 * Distribute the work between us.
 * Jordan: LXC and Libvirt
 * Alexandre: OpenVSwitch and Libvirt
 * Michael: OAR and global architecture