Infrastructure for a SaaS platform for material informatics

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In this post, I would like to share the infrastructure of McGill MatNavi, a material informatics platform I just designed for McGill University.

Technical

Virtual Hardware: The McGill MatNavi cloud runs on the OpenStack at Compute Canada cloud, which provides virtual machines and virtual disk volumn.
Server Management: The McGill MatNavi servers is managed via ansible
Data storage: Data are stored in persistent volume created by Heketi-gluster. In the future, the data will be stored in Cinder volumes when they are available in Compute Canada Cloud.
Backend: all services, applications and databases are deployed via container managed by Kubernetes.
Frontend: For simplicity, the frontend will be created using Jekll template with various applications embedded as iframe, just like my personal blog.

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