OpenShift provides some observability features out-of-the-box, but which features are available depends on what your cluster admin has working and what you have access to. On the NERC, we are able to see container metrics in OpenShift Developer's built-in dashboard. To enable custom visualizations, metrics analysis, and alerting, we need to connect this data to an instance of Grafana which we control.
Currently, https://cube.chrisproject.org is being powered by a VM called fnndsc.childrens.harvard.edu
in the Boston Children Hospital network's DMZ. It's been working well for us through
the years, however its 480GB disk frequently runs out of space. For more
storage, we want to try migrating the data into NERC OpenStack Swift object storage.
Currently, https://cube.chrisproject.org is being powered by a VM called fnndsc.childrens.harvard.edu
in the Boston Children Hospital network's DMZ. It's been working well for us through
the years, however its 480GB disk frequently runs out of space. For more
storage, easier deployments, and stability, we want to try migrating this instance
of the ChRIS backend to the NERC's OpenShift cluster.