IaaS providers are very welcome to join the EGI Federated Cloud as a Resource Centres (RC) and joining the Federated Cloud Task Force to contribute to the design, creation and implementation of the federation.
Resource Centers are free to use any Cloud Management Framework (OpenStack, etc...) as long as they are able to integrate with the EGI Federation components as described in the Federated Cloud Architecture. At the moment this compliance is guaranteed for OpenStack.
The general minimal requirements are:
cloudkeeper
requires enough disk space to download and convert images
before uploading into your local catalogue. The number and size of images
which will be downloaded depends on the communities you plan to support. For
the piloting VO fedcloud.egi.eu
, 100GB of disk should be enough.ops
and dteam
VOs, used for operational purposes as per RC OLAvo.access.egi.eu
for
piloting)