XIFI: how we did federate different FI infrastructures

eXperimental Infrastructures for the Future Internet
www.fi-xifi.eu
The Community Cloud
for FI-PPP developers
Federico Facca

Summary
• Overview
• Architecture
• FI Facilities Adapters
• Offering to developers and infrastructures
• What else?
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What is XIFI?
• XIFI is the Community Cloud for European FI-PPP developers
enabled by advanced FI infrastructures in Europe

What is XIFI?
• XIFI is the Community Cloud for European FI-PPP developers
enabled by advanced FI infrastructures in Europe
• XIFI, as part of the overall vision of FI-PPP and following the
principle “eat your own dog food”, is based on FI-PPP
technologies delivered by FI-WARE

Distributed Cloud for FI-LAB
• 5 Initial nodes
• Up to 10 more nodes

Distributed Cloud for FI-LAB
• 5 Initial nodes
• Up to 10 more nodes
• A node is a data-center (or more
linked)
• Service topology depending on
GEs release and UC requirements
• Nodes selected with Open Call
• Connectivity node-to-node offered
through GEANT / NRENs

The XIFI “topology”
Identity Federation
Spain
(M)
Italy
(M)
France
(S)
Ireland
(S)
German
y (S)
Load Balancer
Synchronize
Spain
(M)
Italy
(M)
France
(S)
Ireland
(S)
Germany
(S)

The XIFI “topology”
Identity Federation
Spain
(M)
Italy
(M)
France
(S)
Ireland
(S)
German
y (S)
Load Balancer
Synchronize
Spain
(M)
Italy
(M)
France
(S)
Ireland
(S)
Germany
(S)
• Note: not all the
links are showed
• Release 1 (January)
may not reflect the
picture
• More information in
Architecture section
• M (master):
management and
operation layer
• S (slave): operation
layer

Services
• FI facilities
• Scalability
• Help Desk
• Elasticity
• Recovery
• Tutorials

Private and Public Partners
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ARCHITECTURE
Interoperability by design for large distributed clouds

Challenges
• Compatibility with FI-
WARE Cloud
• Self-provisioning like in
commercial clouds
• Scalability (+17 cloud
nodes & FI Facilities)
– Software Architecture
– Network
• Provide “uniform” access
to FI Facilities
– IoT, Network, …
Decisions
• One cloud
“API”/Technology to rule all
– OpenStack APIs
• High Availability of services
for no single failure point
and scalability
• L3 MD-VPN by GEANT for
node interconnectivity
– SDN for cross-node
network control and
bandwidth shaping
• Uniform access to FI
Facilities by Adapters
How we got there?

Software as a Service
Select GEs
Select GE
Instance
Apply for
a key
Use!
Platform as a Service
GEs Provisioning Models
VM 1
Monitorin
g
GE1
GE2
GEn
VM 2
Monitorin
g
GE1
GE2
GEn
Node 2
VM 1
Monitorin
g
GE1
GE2
GEn
VM 2
Monitorin
g
GE1
GE2
GEn
Node 1
XIFI
Developer

Software as a Service
Select GEs
Select GE
Instance
Apply for
a key
Use!
Platform as a Service
Select GEs
Select
Nodes
“Cook” Use!
GEs Provisioning Models
VM 1
Monitorin
g
GE1
GE2
GEn
VM 2
Monitorin
g
GE1
GE2
GEn
Node 2
VM 1
Monitorin
g
GE1
GE2
GEn
VM 2
Monitorin
g
GE1
GE2
GEn
Node 1
XIFI
Developer
Node 2
VM UC1
Monitorin
g
GE2
GE4
GE5
Node 1
XIFI
Developer
GE1
GE2
GE3
GE4
GE5
GEn

General Architecture
Centralized Federation
Management
• Find available resources
• Compare resources
• Deploy GEs
• Federated Monitoring
Distributed Resources
• Access GEs
• Access VMs
• Monitoring data
• IdM & AC
• Network configuration

General Architecture (M)
XIFI Federation Tools
Extension of FI-WARE
Cloud Portal
Integration with FI-
PPP JIRA (specific
project)
Deploy infrastructural
software
Federated Monitoring
Deploy blueprints

General Architecture (S)
OpenStack, VMs,
Network configuration
AuthZ & AuthN
• Allows integration
of existing IdM
• Avoid single central
point of failure
• Increase scalability
Local Monitoring System
• Integration of existing monitoring tools
• Avoid single central point of failure
• Increase scalability
• Local information “protection”

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FI FACILITIES ADAPTERS

XIFI Network Controller
• XIFI Network Controller acts as the orchestrator for the
XIFI inter-region connectivity. It will enable the control
and access to the network services supporting the
federated Data Centers (DCs)
– The SDN network service design is inspired in the ABNO
(Application Based Network Orchestration) framework
(IETF-defined), integrating just a meaningful set of
functional modules
– OpenNaaS framework completes the architecture by
providing the enhanced features to cover the overall XIFI
connectivity services

XIFI Network Controller

XIFI Management Network
• Each XIFI DC has to setup a management network, and
it shall be reachable by the XIFI Network Controller

XIFI Infrastructure Monitoring
Middleware (XIMM)
XIMM
XIMM
XIMM
XIMM
PoI
PoI
PoI
PoI
XIFI FEDERATION LAYER
• Adaptation layer between
monitoring tools and XIFI
Federation Layer
• Monitoring connectivity
among regions

XIMM Modules
• NAM Module: Network Active Monitoring will enable us to
check if Quality of Service (QoS) and Service Level
Agreements (SLAs) are accomplished between specific
endpoints (PoI) of the community
– Core parameters provided are Bandwidth (throughput) and Latency
(delay)
• NPM Module: Network Passive Monitoring provides
information which is extremely valuable in trouble-shooting as
real traffic is monitored
– Collected data depicts the status of network equipment
• DEM Module: This component will handle the standard
access to Datacenter & Enablers Monitoring
– Scope parameters include performance of specific servers, both
physical and virtual, and FI-WARE GE instances deployed

Infrastructure Management:
Toolbox
• Support the installation,
updating and managing
of XIFI nodes and allow
bare-metal deployment
of IaaS platforms
 OpenStack
 DCRM
 IDM GE
 Network Controller
 Monitoring
– ..

Infrastructure Management:
Deployment & Configuration
• Due to the distributed nature of the XIFI community, it is
required a component capable of facilitating the
management of the Generic Enablers (GEs) deployed
within the regions
• The Deployment & Configuration Adapter (DCA) will
provide the adaptation layer between the portal and the
cloud hosting GEs (PaaS Manager, SDC, DCRM, SM)
setup in the nodes
• This adapter will be required to ensure the management
prior to, during and after the installation of the GEs, both
at node and federation levels

MDVPN and XIFI
• GEANT SA3T3 project provides XIFI with
– Advanced L2/L3 connectivity among domains (NRENs)
• MDVPN facilities (MPLS and BGP) provides flexibility and
scalability
• QoS & BoD E2E facilities
– Reduced network setup complexity on the nodes
• Configuration only on the Edge Router
• Security is preserved
– Achieved on W48 : POC between French and Germany
– Q1 2014 : 5 nodes integrated in the pilot

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OFFERING TO
DEVELOPERS AND
INFRASTRUCTURES

Branding Outlook
A collections of tools that ease the
deployment, setup, and operation of
FI-WARE instances by Platform
Providers. Main contribution by XIFI.
The official instance of FI-WARE
platform open to UCs and third party
developers. XIFI provides the
Community Cloud that extends it and
operational support.
The software platform developed by
FI-WARE. XIFI provides extensions to
existing FI-WARE GEs to support
Federation of Clouds and
Infrastructures

Deployment
• Deploy the Cloud Hosting
GEs and Monitoring
Adapters to provide the
basic for a new FI-WARE
instance
Federation Management
FI-Ops offer to
infrastructure providers
• Federate a FI-WARE
instance to FI-Lab and
monitor the status of the
different services through
FI-Lab

Connectivity Management
• Manage cross FI-lab node
connectivity of services
allowing for highly
distributed cloud
applications
Service Offer Management
FI-Ops offer to
• Register and deploy
infrastructure services
including GEs, SEs, and
Future Internet Facilities

Extend FI-Lab offer for service
provider & developers
• Availability of 5 nodes
(End of March 2014)
with 500+ cores, 1TB+
Ram, 100TB+ HD
• Additional 12 nodes
(April / September 2014)
with 1000+ cores, 2TB+
Ram, 200TB+ HD
• Level 1 and Level 2
support for the nodes
• Showcases for
developers,
infrastructures, smart
businesses

What’s next?
• Multi-node deployment of
Applications
• Private Cloud
Management through FI-
Lab
• Management of SLA
Templates
• Integration of proprietary
Identity Management
Systems
• Monitoring of GEs and
Apps
• More to come!

Visit us and FI-WARE at the FIA
exhibition!
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Where to find info?
• Official deliverables
– https://www.fi-xifi.eu/publications/deliverables.html
• Up-to-date information of technical architecture
and operation guidelines
– http://wiki.fi-xifi.eu/
– It will include soon also links to released software

Thank you for your attention!
Acknowledgments:
The research conducted by XIFI receives funding from the European Commission FP7 under grant agreement
N°: 604590. The European Commission has no responsibility for the content of this presentation.
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