Compute Orchestration

Compute resource orchestration in the EGI infrastructure

Overview

One of the challenges for researchers in recent years is to manage an ever-increasing amount of compute and storage services, which then form ever more complex end user applications or platforms.

To address this need, EGI provides several orchestrators that facilitate the management of your workload using resources on the federation. These tools have different levels of abstractions and features. See below to understand which to choose (or gets used automatically) in specific scenarios:

Service NameWorkload TypeUse-Case
Infrastructure ManagerVMs, containers, storageUsed to run workloads on a single IaaS Cloud provider.
Workload ManagerJobsUsed to efficiently distribute, manage, and monitor computing workloads.

The following sections offer more details about each of these orchestrators.


Next topics:
Infrastructure Manager

Automating deployment of virtual infrastructures on EGI Cloud

EGI Workload Manager

Distribute and manage workloads in the EGI infrastructure