K8s Services
ARDC envisions and promotes the use of containers and container orchestration for impactful research
Containers and Kubernetes Services
Australian Research Container Orchestration Services (ARCOS)
ARCOS is a community, driven by various national institutions with the aim of establishing a national Kubernetes service and promoting use of containers in research. The community adopts four tier approach:
Community awareness raising - Large member profile spanning 30+ Australian institutions.
Best Practices - Case studies and other documentation
User Support - Container registry and other implementations.
User Experience - Events and training
To know more visit https://arcos.ardc.edu.au/
ARDC Nectar Research Cloud
The ARDC Nectar Research Cloud (Nectar) is Australia’s national research cloud, specifically designed for research computing. Launched in 2012, Nectar provides Australia’s research community with fast, interactive, self-service access to large-scale computing infrastructure, software and data.
Nectar is a federation that is co-designed and receives co-investment from universities across Australia. The federation enables cross-institutional research collaborations to deliver research computing services at a national scale.
Nectar offers services such as Virtual Machines, Data Storage, Kubernetes Clusters, Advance Networking.
To learn more visit https://ardc.edu.au/services/ardc-nectar-research-cloud/
Digital Services hosted on Nectar
The ARDC Nectar Research Cloud is a digital research platform that provides large-scale cloud computing services and tools to Australian researchers. A good number of these projects leverage the benefits of Kubernetes.
Some of the featured projects and services hosted on Nectar:
For a comprehensive list, please visit https://ardc.edu.au/services/ardc-nectar-research-cloud/digital-services-hosted-on-nectar
