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The following table is updated after every review of this procedure.

Table of contents

Overview

To assure production quality of the EGI Infrastructure, every cloud management framework (Cloud platform) or middleware piece (Compute, Storage, etc.) supported by Production Resource Centres needs to fulfil certain requirements. The goal of this procedure is to assure EGI Infrastructure compliance.

Definitions

Please refer to the EGI Glossary for the definitions of the terms used in this procedure.

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", “MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

Entities involved in the procedure

• Technology Provider (TP): person representing or leading Technology Provider team
• EGI Operations (EGIOps)
• Operations Centre (OC)
• Resource Centre (RC)
• Operations Management Board: EGI operations policy board

Prerequisites

Before sending a request:

• OC has to have
  • the support of TP with effort to integrate with EGI Infrastructure (information system, accounting, monitoring etc), provide support via GGUS and maintain software via UMD
  • one or more RC available to deploy the new platform
• TP has to have
  • effort to integrate with EGI Infrastructure (information system, accounting, monitoring etc), provide support via GGUS and maintain software via UMD
  • the support of one or more OC, with one or more RC available to deploy the new platform and the integration-software developed by the TP

Triggers

Steps

Request submission and validation

The request can be send by:

1. Operations Centre
2. EGI Operations
3. Technology Provider

Resource Centres can also request integration of new cloud management framework or middleware. Such request should be first approved by Operations Centre, it belongs to. In such case OC is responsible to create a ticket on behalf of RC.

Subject: Request for integration of XXX to EGI Production Infrastructure (PROC19)

Dear Operations,

We would like to request for starting procedure of integrating XXX to EGI Production Infrastructure:
PROC19 Integration of new cloud management framework or middleware stack in the EGI Infrastructure

Prerequisite data:
* name of Technology Product:
* Technology Provider (person representing or leading the team) contact details(name, email):
* customers of the Product (eg. user community, Operations Centre):
* motivation:


Best Regards
XXX

Functional requirements

Functional requirements for new product to be integrated:

• support VO concept
• support X.509 certificates and/or federated identities (i.e. be compatible with EGI Check-in)

Integration steps

Integration covers following areas (where possible steps can be done in parallel):

Configuration Management

Information System

Monitoring

Operations (ROD) Dashboard

Support

Accounting

UMD

Documentation

Security

The Announcement

EGI Ops announces the availability of new product to OMB and includes the announcement in the monthly EGI Broadcast to communicate the availability of the new product to NGIs, VOs, RCs managers.