Nectar Services Summary List

Service Offering

Available

At

Description

Compute

All sites

Compute based on Virtual Machine instances

Network

All sites

Security Groups, Private Networks, Floating IPs and advanced networking capabilities

Load Balancer

All sites

Load Balancers for end users

Object Store

Site agnostic

Public and Private Object Storage

Volume

All sites

Block storage volumes, backups and snapshots

Shared Filesystem

UoA,
Monash

NFS network file system service

Hosted Databases

Site agnostic

Database service

Hosted Applications

Site agnostic

Application catalog for easy provisioning of supported application environments

DNS

Site agnostic

DNS subdomains and records

Container Orchestration

All sites

Kubernetes based container service

Image

All sites

Storage of end user images

instance snapshots

end-user contributions

Identity

Site agnostic

Create application credentials

Orchestration

Site agnostic

Orchestration service to compose application deployment templates

Dashboard

Site agnostic

Web Dashboard for Nectar cloud access

Key manager

Site agnostic

Key management service

Container Registry

Site agnostic

OCI compliant locally hosted container registry service for storing container images

Reservations

Site agnostic

Instance and host reservations for instances

https://wiki.rc.nectar.org.au/wiki/Blazar

Preemptible Instances

Monash, Melbourne, QRIScloud, Tasmania

Preemptible (or spot) instances

Virtual Desktop Service

Monash,
UoM,
QCIF

Access the VDS

Extras

Various

Node specific services provided at individual nodes

Resource Consumption Reports

Site agnostic

End-user reports for cloud consumption represented in Service Units and Nectar $

End-User Support Services

Distributed Help Desk

All sites

User Support Services ticketing system

Tutorials

All sites

Online Nectar Cloud Tutorials

Support Web Portal

All sites

Support Portal with interactive chat service and service announcements

Training

All sites

Interactive Learning And Training Resources

Allocations System

All sites

System for requesting Nectar project resources and authorising capacity allocations