CVMFS Use Cases for GridPP

Introduction

This page is for outlining use cases for deploying software with CVMFS with GridPP. It is very much a working draft and input from interested parties is very much welcome, either directly on this page or via the discussion page.

Definitions

Entities

• Virtual Organisation: See, for example, this EGI definition;
• CVMFS repository (repo): a subdirectory within /cvmfs/ containing scripts, libraries, executables, etc. to be run on the grid.

Actors

• VO member:
• VO administrator:
• CVFMS administrator:
• Site administrator:

Use Cases

• Create a new CVMFS repository for a VO.

Useful links

• A quick guide to CVMFS.