We will be talking about provisioning in the computing sense and mostly related to just high performance computing. Although this can go pretty far as HPC spans most of computing.
Definition:
Bring some resource online for use in the HPC Cluster such as:
- Nodes
- Users
- Virtual Machines
- Storage
Outline
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Nodes Bare Metal
- DNS
- PXE
- TFTP
- IPMI
- ILO
- BIOS
- BOOT Order
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Provisioning Systems
- ROCKS
- OpenHPC
- Cobbler
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Users
- LDAP
- Kerberos
- NIS
- Local Accounts
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Virtual Machines
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Cloud
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- MS Azure
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HyperVisor Stacks
- ZenServer
- Proxmox
- kvm/libvirt
- VmWare
- MS HyperV
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Cloud