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Federation as a Service in GN4 phase1 continues to develop and offer services to support usage of federated technologies. We are looking to enlarge Federation as a service family, so in addition to FaaS service aimed to support new Federation operators, we started development of a new service - Virtual organisation platform as a service. With VOPaaS we are focusing on providing federated services to Virtual Organisations.   

The objectives of the Federation as a Service task are:

  • Transition the GN3plus pilot for basic federation functionality to service and continue to support roll-out, where applicable. The transition of FaaS service has been comleted in November 2015. More information about using FaaS can be found at http://wiki.edugain.org/faas. 
  • Develop a pilot VOPaaS offering as a simple, consistent way of offering and using federated services for virtual organisations, including group management, attribute authorities and roadmap for a facility for projects to operate their own 'homeless IdP' and manage some attributes by themselves. The offer should be designed to leverage existing tools/platforms as much as possible.
  • Pilot VOPaaS with partners in the research community to ensure usefulness and proper priorities in developing/enhancing functionalities as well as the ultimate business case.
  • Identify the business and commercial considerations involved in making the VOPaaS offer attractive to research communities.

Interested to meet the team? Look at list of Federation as a Service team members

FaaS Task Members

NameOrganisationRole
Marina VermezovićAMRESFaaS Task Leader
Peter SchoberACOnetFaaS System Architect
Nebojsa IlicAMRESFaaS system administrator
Janusz UlanowskiHEAnetFaaS Jagger UI developer
Niels van DijkSURFnetVOPaaS subtask leader
Daniela PöhnDFNVOPaaS
Michal ProchazkaCESNETVOPaaS
Kristof BajnokNIIFVOPaaS
Andrea BianciniGARRVOPaaS
Anass ChabliRENATERVOPaaS
-IUCCVOPaaS

FaaS operations team in SA4/T2

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