Use Case: The Galaxy Project
A step-by-step guide to deploying the Galaxy Project—a scalable, web-based computational workbench for scientific workflows—on an AWS EC2 instance using Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and CVMFS, enabling researchers to efficiently analyze complex datasets in a cloud-based environment.
Putting it All Together: CVMFS In Action
A step-by-step guide to setting up Nextflow on a MicroK8s Kubernetes cluster for scientific data processing, enabling scalable, reproducible, and modular computational workflows.
Kubernetes and Helm: The Beauty of Orchestration
A step-by-step guide to setting up a Kubernetes cluster with integrated CVMFS (CERN Virtual Machine File System) support on MicroK8s, leveraging Helm for streamlined deployment, configuring persistent storage with NFS, and ensuring efficient data access for high-performance workloads.
Terraform: What is it, how do we use it, our scripts to provision
A step-by-step guide on using Terraform to deploy an AWS EC2 instance for a MicroK8s Kubernetes cluster, covering prerequisites, security setup, configuration files, and automation best practices.
DevOps: What? Why? How?
Explore how DevOps practices enhance the deployment and management of CVMFS by automating complex processes, improving collaboration, and leveraging tools like Docker, Terraform, AWS, and Kubernetes to create a scalable, efficient, and reproducible development environment.
Getting Started with CVMFS: From Challenges to Practical Use Cases
This blog post introduces the CernVM File System (CVMFS), explaining its role in efficient, large-scale data and software distribution, its advantages for distributed computing environments, and how organizations can integrate it into their DevOps workflows.