Platforms & Workflows

Leader
Aleksandra WARDZINSKA
Deputy
Sebastian Lopienski

The IT Platforms and Workflows group provides tools and services for all CERN and HEP user communities:

  • Platforms for reproducible analysis workflows
  • Identity and access management, including computing resource lifecycles
  • platforms for developers: version control, container management and machine learning tools, including access through notebooks
  • Web services hosting solutions
  • Authoring tools
  • Platform for managed application deployments (engineering and administrative applications)

Applications Hosting (IT-PW-AH)

Section Leader: Artur Wiecek

Platforms for deployment, hosting and operation of applications and third-party tools (OpenShift); Hosting for third party busines-critical applications in the area of finance, payroll, HR and logistics, helping with the integration of these systems in the CERN environment; Kubernetes based service (Jeedy), used mainly for the deployment of CERN developed Java applications; It is a complete solution built to support specific requirements of developers in FAP and EN. It hosts applications like EDH or EDMS.

Identity and Access Management (IT-PW-IAM)

Section Leader: Hannah Short

Identity and Access Management provides:

  • Centralized authentication and authorization for web applications, for CERN account holders as well as federated and external users. Web applications may be hosted locally at CERN, at partner organisations or in the cloud.
  • Users grouping functionalities for authorisation and mailing
  • Lifecycle management for computing resources, including computing accounts, applications and groups
  • Digital certificates management (Certification Authorities)

Web & Authoring (IT-PW-WA)

Section Leader: Sebastian Lopienski

The Web and Authoring section provides tools and platforms for authoring, collaborating and publishing information on the Web.

These include the central Web hosting services, Online Collaboration tools (Overleaf, SharePoint, TWiki, CodiMD), Web content management systems (Drupal), Publishing services (E-publishing - OJS), static documentation sites, Search as a Service to support information access for large applications (Indico, EDMS) and the global CERN Search engine, as well as Source Code management (Gitlab).