Web site: https://bluebanquise.com
BlueBanquise is a coherent Ansible roles collection, designed to deploy and manage large group of hosts (clusters of nodes).
While main target is High Performance Computing (HPC), the BlueBanquise stack is generic and can adapt to any kind of architecture (university or enterprise infrastructures, render farm, etc.).
The stack is split over multiple repositories:
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🌐 Core: the CORE of the stack, provides roles and tools to deploy and configure hosts.
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🌐 Community: COMMUNITY roles and tools, provides additional features on top of CORE. The release cycle of COMMUNITY is different than CORE.
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🌐 Tools: Tools repository contains sources of stack tools.
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🌐 Infrastructure: Infrastructure repository contains needed script and files to build packages.
The stack documentation is available on the BlueBanquise website, in documentation subfolder.
Note that each role (CORE or COMMUNITY) embeds its own readme, with detailed usage description.
The stack packages are available in the repositories subfolder.
| Operating System family | Operating System distribution | Tested versions | Notes |
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| Red Hat | |||
| RHEL | 7, 8 | √ | |
| CentOS | 7, 8 | √ | |
| CentOS Stream | 8 | √ | |
| Oracle Linux | 8 | √ | |
| Cloud Linux | 8 | Base iso not enough, need to bind to external repositories. | |
| Alma Linux | 8 | √ | |
| Rocky Linux | 8 | √ | |
| Suse | |||
| SLES | NA | Targeted for future release | |
| OpenSuse Leap | NA | Targeted for future release | |
| Debian | |||
| Ubuntu | NA | Targeted for future release | |
| Debian | NA | Targeted for future release |
Ansible >= 2.9.13 is mandatory for BlueBanquise to run properly.
OpenHPC scientific packages and OpenHPC slurm job scheduler are compatible with the stack.
BlueBanquise is part of the Algoric Project from the Fabrique du Loch FabLab.
It is a revamping of the old stack Banquise, based on Salt.
You may wonder where this name comes from:
Special thanks:
- to CINES who provided Algoric team with hardware to develop this stack.
- to @remyd1 for his help on Banquise original stack.
- to @bouriquet for his active help on the stack.
- to @btravouillon for his active help on the stack.