Web site: https://bluebanquise.com
BlueBanquise is group of coherent Ansible collections and tools, designed to deploy and manage large group of hosts (clusters of nodes).
The BlueBanquise collections are generic and can adapt to any kind of architecture (High Performance Computing clusters, university or enterprise infrastructures, Blender render farm, K8S cluster, etc.). A specific focus is made on scalability for very large clusters.
When "stacked" together, collections and tools form the BlueBanquise stack.
The following collections are available:
- 🌐 Infrastructure: the core of the stack, focused on providing roles and tools to deploy hosts and configure vital services.
The stack documentation is available on the BlueBanquise website, in documentation subfolder.
Note that each role embeds its own README, with detailed usage description.
The stack packages are available in the repositories subfolder.
The stack aims at supporting a maximum range of hardware, CPU architectures, and Linux distributions.
Currently tested and supported distributions (other derivative could work) are:
| Operating System family | Operating System distribution | Tested versions | Architectures | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | ||||
| RHEL | 7, 8, 9 | x86_64, aarch64 | √ | |
| Rocky Linux | 8, 9 | x86_64, aarch64 | √ | |
| CentOS | 7, 8 | x86_64, aarch64 | √ | |
| CentOS Stream | 8 | x86_64, aarch64 | √ | |
| Alma Linux | 8, 9 | x86_64, aarch64 | √ | |
| Debian | ||||
| Ubuntu | 20.04, 22.04 | x86_64, arm64 | √. Diskless not supported for now. | |
| Debian | 11 | x86_64, arm64 | √. Diskless not supported for now. | |
| Suse | ||||
| SLES | 15 | x86_64, aarch64 | √. Diskless not supported for now. | |
| OpenSuse Leap | 15 | x86_64, aarch64 | √. Diskless not supported for now. |
Ansible >= 4.10.0 is mandatory for BlueBanquise to run properly.
OpenHPC scientific packages are compatible with the stack.
BlueBanquise is part of the Algoric project from the Fabrique du Loch FabLab, located in Brittany - France.
It is a revamping of the old stack Banquise, based on Salt.
You may wonder where this name comes from:
