Grid5000

The provisioning of Grid5000 machines is done via a script ouigo provided in this repository. It is intended to be run on the machines inside of grid5000 though it can be sufficiently modified to work on machines outside of the network.

Request a Grid5000 Account

An explanation of how to get an account, and under which conditions you are eligible to do so, can be found on the Grid5000 Wiki. The current accounts used by the SCION-Team lie in the misc group.

The associated Research Project should be named as SCIONLab.

Connect to the Grid5000 Frontend

The Grid5000 infrastructure is managed via the Grid5000 Intranet, an easy access is provided ssh infrastructure. To connect simply use the id file provided to Grid5000 registration process.

$ ssh username@access.grid5000.fr

You can connect to all available sites via the internal DNS service. For example connecting to a specific site lille:

$ ssh lille

Grid5000 storage

All site storages are available on the access nodes via nfs mounted in the home directory. So if you need to transfer any files to specific sites use the directory in the access node.

scp file user@access.grid5000.fr:site

Run the Testbed Setup Script

Once you've copied all the files to your account and your chosen site (it doesn't matter which one), you're setup to run the testbed. To do this connect again to your grid5000 site:

$ ssh -J username@access.grid5000.fr username@site

In your home folder you'll find the script

After that you can check the help page with the help subcommand

$ bash setup_scion.sh help

And to initialize the deployment:

$ bash setup_scion.sh setup

This will take a while and allocate available machines and connect them to the desired VLANs. Afterwards you can output the running machines via the info subcommand.

$ bash setup_scion.sh info

The addresses of the machines displayed here can be used to connect to the machines. If you have created the machines yourself, you are free to use the root user, which is accessible with the private part of the ssh key provided to grid5000.

$ ssh root@machine_address

Configure Grid5000 Machines

Updating a Grid5000 Machine

Create Your Own Custom Testbed Configuration