This document provides very basic background information and initial enabling guidance for computational analysts to develop and utilize GitOps practices within the Common Engineering Environment (CEE) and High Performance Computing (HPC) computational environment at Sandia National Laboratories through GitLab/Jacamar runner based workflows.
This report describes the approach, investigation, and prototyping efforts to develop an efficient, reusable methodology and reference framework for applying DevOps to disparate data for data science and data analytics at scale, based on focused application of this methodology and reusable reference framework within Sandia National Laboratories’ Pulsed Power community. Additionally, this report reviews: engineered instantiation of the reference framework used for development and production solutions, our experiences and results in using the reference framework, and future plans regarding research and development.
This writing examines the DevOps practice from a new perspective, one of understanding its philosophical and scientific nature. DevOps has fundamentally changed the landscape for research and development based on guiding philosophical and scientific principles. Advanced computational technologies and domains have adopted DevOps to enable advanced solution engineering for efficient, quality-assured output. The author provides a concise account of how the philosophy and science of DevOps synergistically defines its essential disposition.
The purpose of this report is to share work based on material originally described in a Sandia LDRD proposal for 2016 as well as an invention submission SD 14734 ( DOE # 150281) –“Abstracted, Modular, Ephemeral Autonomic Computing System(s) Codified” from April 2018. This work was done at Sandia National Laboratories, a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525
This report presents work performed in 2017 and is a reissue of the end-of-year report SAND2018-0240, A Proof-of-Concept Approach to DevOps and Microservices, January 2018, modified for unlimited release. This report describes the approach, investigation, and prototyping efforts to create an API management solution and automated deployment pipeline for REST-based microservices. Additionally, it reviews: the microservices created for testing purposes; our experiences and results in using an open-source API management tool; and future plans.
This report describes the use of cloud computing services for running complex public domain performance assessment problems. The work consisted of two phases: Phase 1 was to demonstrate complex codes, on several differently configured servers, could run and compute trivial small scale problems in a commercial cloud infrastructure. Phase 2 focused on proving non-trivial large scale problems could be computed in the commercial cloud environment. The cloud computing effort was successfully applied using codes of interest to the geohydrology and nuclear waste disposal modeling community.