[cfarm-users] Future of cfarm186/cfarm187/cfarm188 at OSUOSL

[Baptiste Jonglez]

On 21-01-26, Baptiste Jonglez via cfarm-users wrote:
> So, it seems we should rather go with option 2: have many small virtual
> machines instead of one big physical x86 server.
> 
> I see three ways to run that:
> 
> (a) ask OSUOSL to use their OpenStack cluster: it delegates physical
>     maintenance to competent people.  Also, each VM can have its own public
>     IP address, which simplifies things a lot.  However, it would only work
>     with "common" operating systems.  I will ask OSUOSL what OS they can support.

They sent this documentation: https://wiki.osuosl.org/openstack/guests.html

Anybody interested in building custom images beyond the ones provided by default?

Baptiste