Overview
Overview of what Slate is and how Kubernetes and OpenShift come together.
What is Slate?
Built on Kubernetes and OpenShift, Slate provides a container orchestration service for running user-managed persistent application services that do not fit into a batch job. It supports all containerized services with Kubernetes. The Slate service today consists two user facing OpenShift clusters in different security enclaves.
Marble Cluster
Marble is in the Moderate security enclave and has access to Frontier and Orion (Lustre).
Marble is a heterogeneus cluster of 30 nodes with 10 Gigabit ethernet connectivity. Marble has a node pool of GPU nodes with 3x NVIDIA V100 each, a node pool with Infiniband connectivity to Frontier and Lustre access, and a node pool of standard compute nodes.
Onyx Cluster
Onyx is in the Open security enclave and has access to Ascent (Ascent) and Wolf (GPFS)
Onyx is a heterogeneus cluster of 15 nodes with 10 Gigabit ethernet connectivity. Onyx has a node pool of ppc64le nodes and a node pool of standard compute nodes.
What is Kubernetes?
Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It provides a rich API and workload primitives that allows users to manage the application deployments of long running services such as web servers and databases.
What is OpenShift?
OpenShift is a Kubernetes Certified Platform. This means that all of the functionality that is in Kubernetes is also implemented in OpenShift. OpenShift has extra functionality built on top though, such as the container builder and integrated registry services.
Simply, OpenShift is a platform as a service (PaaS) offering from Red Hat, provided as a supported and trusted distribution of Kubernetes. The API that OpenShift provides can be accessed via either the Web UI or on the command line via the oc tool. See the Getting Started guide for more information.