Kubernetes is becoming relevant as a scaling infrastructure technology for more and more services. The Kubernetes evaluation project (Kube 3) focuses on the further development of cloud infrastructures in the state of Baden-Württemberg for the provision of Kubernetes. This also supports existing approaches in current bw projects, including bwGitLab, bwJupyter and bwCloud. The aim of the project is to develop and implement the necessary concepts and methods as well as forms of cross-university collaboration and to test them with specific use cases.
Together with the project partners, the University of Heidelberg and Tübingen, a cross-location Kubernetes testbed is to be set up to investigate whether and how this platform can be used to operate shared service infrastructures in the future.
The requirements to be evaluated are consequently the connection to federated authentication and authorization infrastructures (AAI), questions regarding multi-tenancy and information security, deployment models in the form of Kubernetes-as-a-Service (KaaS), as well as the management of projects that are to be implemented on these platforms.
The cross-university opening and transferability of services between the Kubernetes platforms operated at different locations will be investigated on the basis of use cases. The project is part of a cross-national, joint effort to bundle their IT infrastructures as a basis for highly scalable IT services. This means extending the evaluations outlined above in the project to a larger, cross-national scenario.
Contact: Klara Mall, Klaus Scheibenberger