Sponsor: TIER
Group Leader (Chair): Jim Jokl
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Problem
Deploying and operating campus Shibboleth, Grouper, and COmanage environments that adequately support a school's federated and internal application needs is a significant pain point for some schools and a barrier for others. Many campuses do not have the skill sets or staffing resources required by the current application packaging techniques. Many configuration options are possible for these tools and default settings don't necessarily do what schools need. Enhanced configuration tools could ease effort. Broader campus adoption and use of this software will likely require significant progress towards simplified Shibboleth, Grouper, and COmanage implementation and maintenance via an appropriate set of pre-configured containerized, virtualized, and/or cloud software distributions that are curated for longer-term support. Other TIER components will have similar packaging and operational needs.
The mission of this packaging working group is to develop a set of specifications and recommendations for what needs to be done to make TIER components simple to deploy and easier to operate and maintain. These specifications and recommendations will be turned over to TIER staff for implementation, distribution, and long-term maintenance as pre-built TIER software components.
Specific goals for the Packaging for Ease-of-Deployment Working Group include:
Membership in the Working Group is open to all interested parties. Members join the Working Group by subscribing to the mailing list, participating in the phone calls, and otherwise actively engaging in the work of the group.
The chair of the Working Group is appointed by TIER and is responsible for keeping TIER and InCommon TAC informed regarding Working Group's progress.
The Packaging Shibboleth, Grouper, and COmanage for Ease-of-Deployment Working Group will organize its work and develop a work plan to meet the key deliverables highlighted below. The items documented below should be delivered in order listed below.
Potential Deliverables Considered to be Out of Scope for this Phase
The working group is likely to encounter other topics during its deliberations and may elect to tackle appropriate issues within the WG or suggest that other groups or a follow-on work group address these topics.
This working group's efforts are in support of a possible TIER release in April 2016. Work needs to proceed to deliver core packaging design by the end of calendar 2015. The details of for additional administrative and configuration tools and GUIs must be completed by Jan 31, 2016. Depending on the complexity of the added configuration and administrative tools, this software might or might not be included in the April 2016 release.
See Also:
Background information on TIER, Internet2 initiative on Trust and Identity in Education and Research