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<p class="MsoNormal">Very late response, but we are getting ready to switch to this arrangement in the coming months, so I’d be very curious to hear any feedback from others. We will be doing it in Kubernetes, but running the DB on bare-metal dedicated hardware.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Scott Ruffner<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">slurm-users <slurm-users-bounces@lists.schedmd.com> on behalf of Lee Reynolds <Lee.Reynolds@asu.edu><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Slurm User Community List <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, June 17, 2021 at 4:46 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com" <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[slurm-users] Is anyone running the slurmctld and slurmdbd services from within a container?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our current cluster is running Centos 7.9 and we are anticipating setting up a new cluster by the end of the year that will most likely be running one of the Centos 8.x alternatives (Rocky/Alma/???) with the latest version of Slurm.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our team is investigating whether it would be appropriate to run the Slurm server for this upcoming cluster as a container instance. By a server, we mean slurmctld and slurmdbd, with the database as a separate system/container.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is anyone here doing this?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If so, are there any advantages to doing so?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What containerization solution / platform are you using? We would most likely be using Kubernetes.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What sort of challenges have you experienced and how did you solve them?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are there any best practices that you would recommend?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are there any other HPC institutions you know are doing this that we should reach out to ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Lee Reynolds</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Senior RC Architect</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">RTO Research Computing</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Arizona State University</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Mail Code: 6011</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tempe, AZ 85287-5206</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">email: </span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:lee.reynolds@asu.edu"><span style="color:#8C1D40">lee.reynolds@asu.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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