3. Pharos Templates and Configuration Files

Lab and POD templates are provided to help lab owners document capabilities, configurations and network topologies. Compute, network and storage specifications with network topology details are required to help developers use lab resources efficiently while minimizing support needs. This also greatly assists with troubleshhoting. It is the responsibility of the lab owner to keep individual lab documents updated and determine appropriate level of detail that is exposed publically through the Wiki or maintained in a secure Pharos repo with controlled access.

While human readable configuration files are needed, the goal is for full automation of deployments. This requires a common machine readable format for POD configurations as input to every installer. This is the “POD inventory” common format file.

• 3.1. Lab Specification Template
  • 3.1.1. Introduction
  • 3.1.2. Lab Resources
  • 3.1.3. Acceptable Usage Policy
  • 3.1.4. Remote Access Infrastructure
  • 3.1.5. Remote Access Procedure
  • 3.1.6. Lab Documentation
  • 3.1.7. Lab Topology
• 3.2. POD Specification Template
  • 3.2.1. Introduction
  • 3.2.2. Additional Requirements
  • 3.2.3. Server Specifications
  • 3.2.4. VPN Users
  • 3.2.5. Firewall Rules
  • 3.2.6. POD Topology
• 3.3. POD Inventory File