CANFAR Science Platform Portability

• The CANFAR Science Platform will be easily deployable on a kubernetes installation next to their SRC data storage, thus removing the need to move data to perform analysis, but instead using the CANFAR Science Platform to deploy and run scientific containers next to the data.
• The improvements to the CANFAR Science Platform deployment model will result in a better software product that will allow for changes, feature additions, extensions, and plug-ins to be made more rapidly, benefiting the SRCNet prototyping effort.
• This will allow other containerized applications to be added, for example, VisIVO.

The CANFAR Science Platform is deployable on a fresh kubernetes installation (not necessarily a cluster of nodes) with minimal effort.  

• Deployers can configure the platform to use a specific Authentication and Authorization System.
• Deployers can configure the container image registry (or registries) that are to be used by the platform.
• Deployers can specify, through configuration, the nature of the storage available to the platform.
• There shall be no technical barriers incurred by the deployment process that make the platform incompatible with the target infrastructure.

The completed deployment will then allow for users to launch, list, and use running software containers ("sessions") to analyze data available locally to the installation.

• Using credentials from the configured Authentication and Authorization service, a user should be able to launch a session (such as CARTA) to view data available in the configured Data Storage.
• With those same credentials, a user should be able to list and delete sessions that were previously launched.