Karaage 3

Cluster account management tool.

What is Karaage?

Karaage is a cluster account management tool. It can manage users and projects in a cluster and can store the data in various backends.

Features

• Can store user information and/or posix account information in LDAP/Active Directory/passwd file.
• Email notifications.
• Auto account creation - Allow project leaders to manage their users.
• Applications work flow - Users can apply for accounts and be approved by project leaders.
• Usage reporting. Report on a per institute, per project or per user for CPU usage.
• Track usage of software and versions. Keep track of what software (and version) and type of jobs a user is running.

Documentation

• Karaage 3.x User documentation
• Karaage 3.x Programmer documentation:
• Karaage 3.x Admin documentation:

Components

Karaage is a complicated application and has more then one source repository:

• Karaage 3 karaage-cluster-tools
• TLDAP library
• ALogger library
• Website
• Slurm Docker packaging

Anything else not in this list has not been touched in years, and may not be still relevant.

Plugins

• karaage-usage: The karaage-usage plugin provides monitoring of usage information.
• karaage-applications: This plugin allows users to self register accounts with Karaage.
• karaage-software: Keep track of installed software applications.

Support

• Mailing list
• Bug reports

Source code

Karaage is open source code and available under the GPL3 license. You can find the source code for Karaage at github.