Dr. Craig A. Lee, NIST/IEEE Joint Working Group on Federated Cloud, [email protected]
Dr. Martial Michel, Data Machines, Inc., [email protected]
Dr. Khalil Yazdi, Yazdi and Associates
Dr. Robert Bohn, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Purpose
Determine how the OpenStack Community can partner with the NIST/IEEE Joint WG on Federated Cloud, and the Open Research Cloud Alliance (ORCA), to develop support for general cloud federation, and enable a wide range of collaborative application domains at any level in the software stack: IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS.
Background
The momentum around cloud federation continues to grow. The NIST/IEEE Joint WG on Federated Cloud [1,2,3] has been running for almost seven months now, and recently held their first workshop [4] to report-out on current work and invite stakeholders to review, comment, help in charting the course of future work. The Open Research Cloud Alliance [5] has been actively developing consensus across the scientific community stakeholders and will be holding their 4th Open Research Cloud Congress at the Vancouver Summit. The Open Geospatial Consortium will also be kicking-off their Testbed-14 [6] project in April which has a federated cloud task to demonstrate specific geospatial data sharing scenarios.
This Forum topic will continue the discussion around cloud federation started at the OpenStack Summit Forum in Sydney [7,8]. Keystone, OpenStack and the OpenStack community are in a unique position to take a leadership position and make significant contributions to this process. Keystone has already built-out basic support to "federate-in" identities and "federate-out" OpenStack services. With modest additional capabilities Keystone could support general federations across multiple administrative domains [9] at any level in the system stack, i.e., IaaS, Paas, and SaaS. This would facilitate a wide variety of collaborations, including areas as diverse as international "big science" collaborations, international disaster response, and supply chain management, just to name a few.
This discussion session will center around possible federation deployment and governance models that could be built-out in Keystone that embody the key concepts and design principles being developed in the NIST/IEEE Joint WG and ORCA. The success of these efforts will depend directly on engaging with cloud builders, operators, and stakeholders. We welcome the opportunity to pursue this goal with the OpenStack community.
[1] Press Release: http://standards.ieee.org/news/2017/intercloud_interoperability_and_federation.html
[2] NIST Public WG on Federated Cloud:
Twiki Page: http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/FederatedCloudPWGFC
Mailing List: [email protected]
[3] IEEE/P2302 Intercloud WG:
Project Site: http://sites.ieee.org/sagroups-2302/
Mailing List: [email protected]
[4] NIST/IEEE Federation Cloud Workshop, http://federatedcloud.eventbrite.com
[5] http://www.openresearchcloud.org
[6] OGC Testbed-14, http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/testbed14
[7] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Supporting-General-Federation
[8] https://www.openstack.org/summit/sydney-2017/summit-schedule/events/20534/3rd-open-research-cloudcongress
[9] Lee, C. A., "Turn OpenStack into the Global Intercloud
