Arcus - My Own Cloud

Developed By

Adarsh Kumar Jain

Abhishek Khandal

(Under the mentorship of Mr. Vimal Daga, Technical Head, LinuxWorld)

Automate Deployment of Cloud Computing and Virtualization with Containerized Docker Integration On Linux System using Python and Provisioned by DevOps - Own Cloud Infrastructure with Operational Intelligence Tool - Splunk.

I have developed my own cloud platform ARCUS, with my team. It is a framework of cloud computing services which is hosted as a Web-Application provided on demand services of computational and operational resources, storage.

Services Provided by Arcus

StaaS (Storage as a Service)

Provided both storage type using LVM (Logical Volume Management) so that disk size can be increased or decreased dynamically as per requirement.

• Object Storage - Using NFS, SSHFS which provides formatted disk.
• Block Storage - Using ISCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) protocol as raw disk.

IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)

Various OS are provided on demand in CLI and GUI mode on client system according to desired RAM size, Hard Disk size, VCPUs etc. using QEMU-KVM type-2 hypervisor technique. Providing access of OS in web browser using noVNC.

CaaS (Container as a Service)

Provides services to launch 1000s of containers at a time which work as an OS also. Arcus also provides you with the facilities to launch online shell, save launched Containers, start, stop or remove Containers.

PaaS (Platform as a Service)

Run online compilers for language like Python 2.7, Python 3, C , PHP etc.

DbaaS (Database as a Service)

Arcus provides Database on demand service, a container is launched with preinstalled MySQL server, as requested along with phpMyAdmin. Full-fledged database server with access to customization is provided through a specially restricted Linux user.

Security

As Linux server is considered the most secure server so we are using its User Authentication Management for our project.

Technologies Used

1. Dockers - As Linux container
2. DevOps - Ansible
3. Operating System - Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.3
4. Protocols used - NFS, SSHFS, SSH, ISCSI, HTTPD, VNC
5. Software/Tools used - Vim, WinSCP, VNC-Manager, Oracle VM, VNC viewer
6. Backend Technology - Python Integrated with HTML, Python CGI, MySQL, Linux commands provisioned by Ansible.
7. Frontend Technology - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX