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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 245, 2020
24th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2019)
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Article Number | 07025 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | 7 - Facilities, Clouds and Containers | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024507025 | |
Published online | 16 November 2020 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024507025
Using Kubernetes as an ATLAS computing site
1
University of Texas at Arlington, United States of America
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University of Victoria, Canada
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Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States of America
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European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland
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Academia Sinica, Taiwan
* Corresponding author: barreiro@uta.edu
† Copyright 2020 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS Collaboration. Reproduction of this article or parts of it is allowed as specified in the CC-BY-4.0 license.
Published online: 16 November 2020
In recent years containerization has revolutionized cloud environments, providing a secure, lightweight, standardized way to package and execute software. Solutions such as Kubernetes enable orchestration of containers in a cluster, including for the purpose of job scheduling. Kubernetes is becoming a de facto standard, available at all major cloud computing providers, and is gaining increased attention from some WLCG sites. In particular, CERN IT has integrated Kubernetes into their cloud infrastructure by providing an interface to instantly create Kubernetes clusters, and the University of Victoria is pursuing an infrastructure-as-code approach to deploying Kubernetes as a flexible and resilient platform for running services and delivering resources.
The ATLAS experiment at the LHC has partnered with CERN IT and the University of Victoria to explore and demonstrate the feasibility of running an ATLAS computing site directly on Kubernetes, replacing all grid computing services. We have interfaced ATLAS’ workload submission engine PanDA with Kubernetes, to directly submit and monitor the status of containerized jobs. We describe the integration and deployment details, and focus on the lessons learned from running a wide variety of ATLAS production payloads on Kubernetes using clusters of several thousand cores at CERN and the Tier 2 computing site in Victoria.
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