Overview

Kadeploy is a scalable, efficient and reliable deployment system (cluster provisioning solution) for cluster and grid computing. It provides a set of tools for cloning, configuring (post installation) and managing cluster nodes. It can deploy a 300-nodes cluster in a few minutes, without intervention from the system administrator. It can deploy Linux, *BSD, Windows, Solaris.

It plays a key role on the Grid'5000 testbed, where it allows users to reconfigure the software environment on the nodes.

Download

Sources, packages and documentation are available on the Gitlab project page.

Mailing list & contact information

To report bugs, ask for support or have general discussions, please use the bug tracker or the mailing list .

Kadeploy3 is developed at INRIA Nancy - Grand Est. Its intiial development was supported by the ADT Kadeploy project (2011-2013), which was led by the AlGorille team at LORIA.

Current developers are Alexandre Merlin (Inria, main developer since 2020), Pierre Neyron (CNRS) and Lucas Nussbaum (Inria).

Publications

• Kadeploy was presented in:
  

  Emmanuel Jeanvoine, Luc Sarzyniec, Lucas Nussbaum.
  Kadeploy3: Efficient and Scalable Operating System Provisioning
  USENIX ;login:, volume 38, number 1, pages 38-44 (February 2013). (Full issue)

  To cite Kadeploy3, use:

  @article{kadeploy3,
      title = {{Kadeploy3: Efficient and Scalable Operating System Provisioning}},
      author = {Jeanvoine, Emmanuel and Sarzyniec, Luc and Nussbaum, Lucas},
      journal = "USENIX ;login:",
      volume = 38,
      number = 1,
      year = {2013},
      pages = {38-44},
      month = Feb
  }
  

• More detailed research report presenting Kadeploy3:
  

  Emmanuel Jeanvoine, Luc Sarzyniec, Lucas Nussbaum.
  Kadeploy3: Efficient and Scalable Operating System Provisioning for HPC Clusters.
  INRIA Research Report 8002. (Full paper, HAL page)

• A demo featuring Kadeploy was selected for the final of the 2012 SCALE challenge (organized in conjunction with CCGrid'2012). See the full paper and the presentation slides on HAL.
• An experiment featuring Kadeploy won the Grid'5000 school 2012 challenge's. See the presentation slides.
• An overview of Kadeploy main features is available here.

Acknowledgements

Kadeploy3 greatly benefits from the work on Kadeploy and Kadeploy2, which were developed by the Apache and Mescal projects at the ID-IMAG laboratory (now part of Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble).