Kory Draughn
Chief Technologist
iRODS Consortium
June 3, 2022
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iRODS Overview
iRODS Overview
The iRODS Consortium
Our Mission
- Continuous Improvement
- Grow the Community
- Standardization
- Show value to our Membership
The iRODS Consortium
Our History
- Founded in 2013 by RENCI, DICE, and DDN
- Accepted the code base in 2014
- Forty two releases of iRODS to date
Our Membership
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Why use iRODS?
People need a solution for:
- Managing large amounts of data across various storage technologies
- Controlling access to data
- Searching their data quickly and efficiently
- Automation
The larger the organization, the more they need software like iRODS.
iRODS as the Integration Layer
The iRODS Data Management Model
Core Competencies
Policy
Capabilities
Patterns
iRODS Core Competencies
The underlying technology categorized into four areas
Data Virtualization
Combine various distributed storage technologies into a Unified Namespace
- Existing file systems
- Cloud storage
- On premises object storage
- Archival storage systems
iRODS provides a logical view into the complex physical representation of your data, distributed geographically, and at scale.
Projection of the Physical into the Logical
Logical Path
Physical Path(s)
Data Discovery
Attach metadata to any first class entity within the iRODS Zone
- Data Objects
- Collections
- Users
- Storage Resources
- The Namespace
iRODS provides automated and user-provided metadata which makes your data and infrastructure more discoverable, operational and valuable.
Workflow Automation
Integrated scripting language which is triggered by any operation within the framework
- Authentication
- Storage Access
- Database Interaction
- Network Activity
- Extensible RPC API
The iRODS rule engine provides the ability to capture real world policy as computer actionable rules which may allow, deny, or add context to operations within the system.
Secure Collaboration
iRODS allows for collaboration across administrative boundaries after deployment
- No need for common infrastructure
- No need for shared funding
- Affords temporary collaborations
iRODS provides the ability to federate namespaces across organizations without pre-coordinated funding or effort.
- Packaged and supported solutions
- Require configuration not code
- Derived from the majority of use cases observed in the user community
iRODS Capabilities
The Data Management Model
Questions?