Posts in 2023
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autofs in containers
Monday, December 18, 2023 in News
autofs handles on-demand mounting of volumes. This is crucial for some of our storage plugins, where it is not known which volumes a Pod will need during its lifetime. Container Storage Interface, CSI, is the industry standard for exposing storage to …
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GitLab Runners and Kubernetes: A Powerful Duo for CI/CD
Wednesday, December 06, 2023 in News
Introduction A GitLab runner is an application that works with GitLab CI/CD to run jobs in a pipeline. GitLab at CERN provides runners that are available to the whole instance and any CERN user can access them. In the past, we were providing a fixed …
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Nurturing Sustainability: Raising Power Consumption Awareness
Tuesday, September 05, 2023 in News
Supervisors: Diana Gaponcic, Ricardo Rocha With modern society relying more and more on digital services this has led to an explosive growth in data centres and cloud-based applications. This growth comes at a cost – data centres are power-hungry and …
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Efficient Access to Shared GPU Resources: Part 6
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 in News
As the sixth blog post in our series, we are bringing a story about training a high energy physics (HEP) neural network using NVIDIA A100 GPUs using Kubeflow training operators. We will go over our methodology and analyze the impact of various …
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Webinar: Fully Automated Deployments with ArgoCD
Thursday, July 13, 2023 in News
The next step after achievement full automated with GitOps for your services and applications is to also apply it to the infrastructure underneath. Managing multiple clusters can be a challenge, so why not do it in the same way you manage the …
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Efficient Access to Shared GPU Resources: Part 5
Tuesday, July 04, 2023 in News
This is part 5 of a series of blog posts about GPU concurrency mechanisms. In part 1 we focused on the pros and cons of different solutions available on Kubernetes, in part 2 we dove into the setup and configuration details, in part 3 we analyzed …
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Webinar: Container Storage Improved: What's New in CVMFS and EOS Integrations
Monday, June 05, 2023 in News
We’ve been working hard on improving storage integration with our Kubernetes service offerings. This webinar is a great opportunity to catch up with all the latest improvements, including better support for CVMFS, EOS, and more.
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Efficient Access to Shared GPU Resources: Part 4
Thursday, April 27, 2023 in News
This is part 4 of a series of blog posts about GPU concurrency mechanisms. In part 1 we focused on the pros and cons of different solutions available on Kubernetes, in part 2 we dove into the setup and configuration details, and in part 3 we …
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Propagating OAuth2 tokens made easier
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 in News
We are thrilled to announce the release of oauth2-refresh-controller v1.0.1 component. Modifying deployments to include OAuth2 secrets is now thing of the past. Inject and refresh tokens automatically with the oauth2-refresh-controller. What is …
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Efficient Access to Shared GPU Resources: Part 3
Monday, March 20, 2023 in News
This is part 3 of a series of blog posts about GPU concurrency mechanisms. In part 1 we focused on the pros and cons of different solutions available on Kubernetes, and in part 2 we dove into the setup and configuration details. This series focuses …