1. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGI-InSPIRE www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 09/19/13 1 Use the AppDB as Virtual Appliance Marketplace Marios Chatziangelou, et al. mhaggel@iasa.gr Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA) Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET)

2. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 AppDB as Virtual Appliance Marketplace The mission: A community driven service that:  stores and provide Virtual Appliances related metadata  acts as distribution mechanism between the submitters/community and the Resource Providers

3. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Some terms for start…  Virtual Appliances (VAs) are ready-to-run virtual machines packaged with an operating system and software application(s)  A Virtual Appliance (latest) version provides a list of the Virtual Machines Images (VMIs) that constitutes the VA  Virtual Machine Image is a … well, you all know what a Virtual Machine Image is.

4. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Virtual Applications Marketplace modules & actors API DB Business Logic AppDB Portal vmcaster@appdb Visitors VMI submitters Resource Providers 3rd party/external services and/or applications AppDB GUI CLI submissions & publishing AppDB search find download submit/upload VA versions & metadata subscribe & download the latest images & their metadata integrate exchange data

5. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Use cases: The following use cases will be covered: Register a Virtual Appliance Create a VA version and publish it, using the AppDB portal Update a VA version using the vmcaster command line tool What a Resource Provider ‘sees’ What is available for the end-user/visitor

6. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Info Contact through: EGI RT [http://rt.egi.eu] EGI Helpdesk [http://helpdesk.egi.eu] AppDB development team [appdb-support@iasa.gr ] References [1]. AppDB: http://appdb.egi.euhttp://appdb.egi.eu [2]. vmcaster: https://github.com/hepix-virtualisation/vmcasterhttps://github.com/hepix-virtualisation/vmcaster [3]. vmcatcher: https://github.com/hepix-virtualisation/vmcatcherhttps://github.com/hepix-virtualisation/vmcatcher

7. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Thank you!! Questions