| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 251, 2021
25th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2021)
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| Article Number | 02064 | |
| Number of page(s) | 12 | |
| Section | Distributed Computing, Data Management and Facilities | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202125102064 | |
| Published online | 23 August 2021 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202125102064
Building a Kubernetes infrastructure for CERN’s Content Management Systems
1 CERN
2 Instituto Superior Técnico
* e-mail: konstantinos.samaras-tsakiris@cern.ch
Published online: 23 August 2021
The infrastructure behind home.cern and 1000 other Drupal websites serves more than 15,000 unique visitors daily. To best serve the site owners, a small engineering team needs development speed to adapt to their evolving needs and operational velocity to troubleshoot emerging problems rapidly. We designed a new Web Frameworks platform by extending Kubernetes to replace the ageing physical infrastructure and reduce the dependency on homebrew components.
The new platform is modular, built around standard components and thus less complex to operate. Some requirements are covered solely by upstream open source projects, whereas others by components shared across CERN’s web hosting platforms. We leverage the Operator framework and the Kubernetes API to get observability, policy enforcement, access control and auditing, and high availability for free. Thanks to containers and namespaces, websites are isolated. This isolation clarifies security boundaries and minimizes attack surface, while empowering site owners.
In this work we present the new system’s open-source design contrasted with the one it replaces, demonstrating how we drastically reduced our technical debt.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2021
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