Elastic Secure Infrastructure (ESI)

The most current documentation, including information about installation and usage, can be found at the ESI Read the Docs site.

Activities and Planning

Our work is tracked on the ESI Taskboard.

Code Repositories

Our code development features a mix of upstream OpenStack work and custom ESI code.

• OpenStack
  • ironic
  • networking-ansible
• ESI
  • esi-leap: a simple leasing service
    • python-esileapclient
  • python-esiclient: CLI commands to simplify OpenStack workflows

References

Presentations

• ESI: How I Learned to Share My Hardware! [ video | PDF ]

Academic papers [ complete references ]

• "A secure cloud with minimal provider trust"
• "HIL: designing an exokernel for the data center"
• "Supporting Security Sensitive Tenants in a Bare-Metal Cloud"
  • Describes an initial implementation of an isolation service
  • Code for this implementation can be found at https://github.com/cci-moc/hil.
• "M2: Malleable Metal as a Service"
  • Describes an initial implementation of a provisioning service
  • Code for this implementation can be found at https://github.com/cci-moc/m2.

Contact and Contribution

You can contact the ESI development team on the OFTC #moc IRC channel.

You are welcome to open issues or submit pull requests concerning our documentation via the ESI GitHub repository.

We have a mailing list at esi@lists.massopen.cloud. Go here to subscribe.