XSEDE Capability Delivery Plan for "IAAS-8: Dynamically acquire and manage hosted computer systems and/or storage volumes"

Use Case IAAS-08: Dynamically acquire and manage hosted computer systems and/or storage volumes

Area: Scientific Computing
URLs: Public, Review

Executive Summary: An application or science gateway developer needs to develop an application that can automatically acquire and manage hosted computer systems and/or storage volumes via an Application Programmer Interface (API).

Organization: 
XSEDE
URLs: Public
First CDP: 2017-11-16
Current CDP: 2018-08-26
Current Implementation Status: 
Time & Effort Summary: 

No effort or changes are proposed at this time.

Significant Revisions:
  • 2018-08-26 18:40 (current revision)
This capability is currently supported by the following 1 components:
Component User facing? Component’s role in the capability
Service Provider IaaS (Cloud) Services yes Some of XSEDE's Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS, aka cloud) Service Providers (SPs) offer API access to their cloud systems, enabling this use case. At the present time, the APIs offered are standard OpenStack APIs, meaning that any OpenStack development environment may be used to develop applications that use these cloud resources.