Why using IAAS / PAAS at Cersat ?

Infrastructure and Platform as a Service (IAAS, PAAS) are useful feature for a satellite data center like the Cersat : providing a multi-OS environment following projects requirements allows a lot of flexibility compared to constraining projects to use existing environments or deploy specific hardware environments ...

Overview

The platform software architecture relies on several layers, each containing one or more components :

• Distributed Processing : Torque/Maui, Hadoop Map/Reduce, Celery, Gearman
• Virtual Environments / Containers : Chroot, Docker, Eucalyptus/OpenStack
• Distributed Filesystem : MooseFS, Hadoop HDFS
• Bare Metal / OS : Ubuntu 12.04 LTS