Digital repository as a service: automatic deployment of an Invenio-based repository using TOSCA orchestration and Apache Mesos

Marica Antonacci, Alberto Brigandì, Miguel Caballer, Eva Cetinić, Davor Davidovic, Giacinto Donvito, Germán Moltó, and Davide Salomoni. Digital repository as a service: automatic deployment of an Invenio-based repository using TOSCA orchestration and Apache Mesos. In EPJ Web of Conferences, pp. 07023, 214, 9 2019.

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Abstract

In the framework of the H2020 INDIGO-DataCloud project, we have implemented an advanced solution for the automatic deployment of digital data repositories based on Invenio, the digital library framework developed by CERN. Exploiting cutting-edge technologies, such as Docker and Apache Mesos, and standard specifications to describe application architectures such as TOSCA, we are able to provide a service that simplifies the process of creating and managing repositories of various digital assets using cloud resources. An Invenio-based repository consists of a set of services (e.g. database, message queue, cache, workers and frontend) that need to be properly installed, configured and linked together. These operations, along with the provisioning of the resources and their monitoring and maintenance, can be challenging for individual researchers or small-to-moderate-sized research groups. To this purpose, the INDIGO-DataCloud platform provides advanced features for orchestrating the deployment of complex virtual infrastructures on distributed cloud environments: it is able to provision the required resources automatically over heterogeneous and/or hybrid cloud infrastructures and to configure them automatically ensuring dynamic elasticity and resilience. This approach has been successfully adapted to support the needs of the researchers and scholars in the domain of the Digital Arts and Humanities.

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@inproceedings{Antonacci2019,
   abstract = {In the framework of the H2020 INDIGO-DataCloud project, we have implemented an advanced solution for the automatic deployment of digital data repositories based on Invenio, the digital library framework developed by CERN. Exploiting cutting-edge technologies, such as Docker and Apache Mesos, and standard specifications to describe application architectures such as TOSCA, we are able to provide a service that simplifies the process of creating and managing repositories of various digital assets using cloud resources. An Invenio-based repository consists of a set of services (e.g. database, message queue, cache, workers and frontend) that need to be properly installed, configured and linked together. These operations, along with the provisioning of the resources and their monitoring and maintenance, can be challenging for individual researchers or small-to-moderate-sized research groups. To this purpose, the INDIGO-DataCloud platform provides advanced features for orchestrating the deployment of complex virtual infrastructures on distributed cloud environments: it is able to provision the required resources automatically over heterogeneous and/or hybrid cloud infrastructures and to configure them automatically ensuring dynamic elasticity and resilience. This approach has been successfully adapted to support the needs of the researchers and scholars in the domain of the Digital Arts and Humanities.},
   author = {Marica Antonacci and Alberto Brigandì and Miguel Caballer and Eva Cetinić and Davor Davidovic and Giacinto Donvito and Germán Moltó and Davide Salomoni},
   doi = {10.1051/epjconf/201921407023},
   editor = {A. Forti and L. Betev and M. Litmaath and O. Smirnova and P. Hristov},
   issn = {2100-014X},
   booktitle = {EPJ Web of Conferences},
   month = {9},
   pages = {07023},
   title = {Digital repository as a service: automatic deployment of an Invenio-based repository using TOSCA orchestration and Apache Mesos},
   volume = {214},
   url = {https://www.epj-conferences.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921407023},
   year = {2019}
}