Case Study: Consortium GARR achieves countrywide federated cloud efficiency with Ubuntu OpenStack and Canonical

Consortium GARR creates countrywide Federated Canonical OpenStack

Consortium GARR, Italy’s leading research and education network consortium, needed a way to deliver competitive cloud services across multiple institutions while overcoming the limitations of standard OpenStack for multi-tenancy, partitioning, and resource control. To support its countrywide federated cloud, GARR turned to Ubuntu OpenStack along with Canonical’s MAAS and Juju for model-driven operations and automated deployment.

Using Ubuntu OpenStack, MAAS, and Juju, Consortium GARR built a federated cloud spanning data centres in five locations and automated the full deployment and maintenance process. The result was the ability to stand up a cloud remotely in 20 minutes and achieve Google- and AWS-like efficiency, while also enabling self-service applications for researchers through the Juju ecosystem.

Consortium GARR

Giuseppe Attardi

Coordinator of the Distributed Computing and Storage Department