Infrastructure Manager

Infrastructure Manager (IM) revolutionises infrastructure deployment by offering an open-source solution for creating complex and tailored virtual infrastructures across multiple clouds.

With IM, the time-consuming and error-prone manual processes are automated, enabling seamless deployment, configuration, software installation, monitoring, and updates of virtual infrastructures. IM is designed to be versatile, supporting a wide range of public and on-premises cloud back-ends. This cloud-agnostic approach ensures that user applications can be deployed effortlessly regardless of the underlying cloud infrastructure.

Incorporating DevOps capabilities based on Ansible, IM takes infrastructure management to the next level. Users can easily install and configure their required applications, creating a fully functional infrastructure that meets their specific requirements.

ENES is a European network of 50+ partners collaborating to accelerate climate progress, Earth system modelling, and understanding. They support global/regional climate simulations, adhere to Earth System Grid Federation data standards, and play a crucial role in IPCC assessments and EU policy climate projections.

ENES, with its complex models and evolving computing platforms, tackles challenges through a distributed e-infrastructure of shared components, tools, and data. The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) generates multi-model climate projections crucial for EU policies. ENES CMIP project alone has produced 10M+ datasets, with 500M+ global downloads. The EGI Infrastructure Manager has been used by ENES to automate the deployment and configuration of the ENES cloud instance atop EGI Cloud Compute providers.

Furthermore, the IM also enabled the elastic management of the virtual infrastructure adding or removing working nodes when there are changes in the system workload.