Getting Started
The Condenser platform provides pools of compute and storage resources that can be used to create virtual machines, networks, and volumes.
Deploying virtual resources
Within the UCL network, Condenser can be accessed through Rancher. Resources can be deployed manually through this interface. Resources can also be automatically deployed using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methods such as Terraform.
We have documentation demonstrating a simple Terraform deployment and the equivalent manual deployment in the Rancher GUI.
Some advantages of describing deployments with IaC are that deployments become repeatable and are easier to audit and contribute to. We collect examples of deployments for Condenser.
Both the GUI and Terraform deployments use Harvester to deploy resources on the underlying
kubernetes cluster, which uses kubevirt to provide
virtual machines. In case a deployment requires features that are not yet enabled
by Harvester, resources can also be deployed directly onto a kubernetes cluster with
kubectl.
Administration of virtual resources
On Condenser, developers are responsible for administering their own virtual resources. Please refer to the appropriate documentation. Some starting points are listed below.