Why Data Management Matters

As data matures and reaches a broader community, data management policy must also evolve to meet these additional requirements.

iRODS is

• Open Source
• Distributed
• Data Centric
• Metadata Driven

A flexible framework for the abstraction of infrastructure

iRODS as the Integration Layer

iRODS Build and Test - Today

Spring 2015 - onwards

• Jenkins → Python → Ansible → zone_bundles → vSphere dynamic VMs

Changes Since 2017

• Centos 6 and Ubuntu 12 no more supported

• irods build logic moved out of ansible

• workflow to test all plugins

• run-script-on-vms

• run-script-on-irods-zone

History

20+ year legacy

• 10 years of federal funding for grid storage research
• 10 years of federal funding for policy engine research
• iRODS Consortium founded in 2013

Our Membership

Community Driven

Input from the Open Source Community

• Support Requests
• Community Feedback
• Working Groups
• Use Cases
• Proofs of Concept

All with the Expectation of Public Discourse and Disclosure

Discovered a common enabling practice...

(aka metadata)

Annotation with meaning

Annotation is both descriptive and prescriptive.

It is useful

• for discovery of the past and the present
• to direct the future

Metadata Everywhere

With the appropriate abstractions, everything in a system can be described with metadata and therefore, all actions within a system can be driven by that metadata.

Metadata Driven Patterns:

• Good Metadata (Templates)
• Landing Zone / Ingest
• Replication
• Tiering
• Archiving
• Auditing
• Data to Compute
• Compute to Data

Metadata Templates

iRODS Capabilities

From Prototype to Production

Provenance and Reporting

Data to Compute Pattern

Compute to Data Pattern

An open community-driven process

• is hard
• is slow

But, it also

• sets clear expectations
• generates a shared language
• produces a strong culture
• produces a better 'product'
• is worth it

Discovering Design Patterns

Thank you!

iRODS Consortium      @iRODS

RENCI                              @RENCI

Booth #437

Terrell Russell, Ph.D.

@terrellrussell

Chief Technologist, iRODS Consortium