Containers and Kubernetes in Australian Research: Building a Community for the Future

Containers and Kubernetes in Australian Research: Building a Community for the Future

Aleem Uddin¹, Steven Manos², Mark Gray³, David Powell⁴, Paul Coddington¹, Jake Yip¹, Ping Chen<sup>1

1</sup>Australian Research Data Commons, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
²Australian BioCommons, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
³Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Perth, WA, Australia
⁴Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Abstract

This session aims to showcase the Australian Research Container Orchestration Service (ARCOS) community’s effort, since its formation in 2019, described in an ARCOS Paper 2. The community aims to promote containers and container orchestration in the Australian research sector and develop national standards for their use in research. This session briefs the ARCOS Paper 2 illustrating the impact of the four tiered approach involving community awareness raising, best practices, user support, and user experience. At this meeting the community will have the opportunity to design and direct the future of ARCOS. Additionally, the session will also feature brief case studies of various research projects.

Biography

1. Dr Aleem Uddin is virtualisation specialist at ARDC and he chairs the ARCOS community.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8519-5534
2. Dr Steven Manos is the Associate Director of Cyberinfrastructure, Australian BioCommons, representing ARCOS steering committee.
3. Dr Mark Gray – Head of Scientific Platforms, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, representing ARCOS steering committee.
4. Dr David Powell – Director, Monash eResearch Centre, representing ARCOS steering committee.
5. Dr Paul Coddington is Associate Director, Research Cloud at the ARDC.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1336-9686
6. Mr Jake Yip – Tech Lead for Nectar Research Cloud at ARDC
7. Mr Ping Chen – Research DevOps Systems Engineer at ARDC