Cloud Lab

For a while I wanted to publish the research capabilities of Cloud Lab research group in the Information Technology and Management Program Program at the College of Computing.

Hardware Platform

• Dell PowerEdge R730
  • Used as a remote-shared build-server for building and deploying VMs
  • 2 x E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz
  • 143 GB RAM
• HP DL 380 G7 x2
  • 24 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5690 @ 3.47GHz
  • 143 GB RAM
• Fujitsu TX300 S7
  • 24 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 @ 2.00GHz
  • 188 GB RAM

Opensource Software for the on-prem Cloud

So what can one use for on-prem cloud?

• Version Control for Configurations
  • Git
  • Github
• Virtualization Management (Elastic Compute)
  • Proxmox 7
• S3-Compatible Object Storage
  • Min.io
• DNS forwarding
  • Consul
  • Cloud images are not static but ephemeral
• Virtual Machine Template Construction
  • Packer
• Virtual Machine Infrastructure Deployment
  • Terraform
• Password Management
  • All public private keys and API tokens – no passwords
  • Twisted Edwards Curve
• Monitoring
  • Grafana
• Event Routing
  • Riemann
• Metrics Collection and Storage
  • Telegraf
  • Graphite
• Direct Attached Storage
  • TrueNas
  • iSCSI

Conclusion

There are many software options–if your software is left off the list its not a detriment to you.