CORD Build 2017

Flex seeks to provide community labs as part of Lab-as-a-Service offerings where members can collaborate for cord trials on OCP and custom reference platforms using high speed VPN connections to lab infrastructure. Although CORD deployment process is very well documented but there are inherent issues with the deployment process itself behind corporate firewall, low speed internet connection and other restrictions around repositories access in certain regions which makes it very difficult for members to deploy and test CORD solutions. Lab facilities with open VPN access and high speed dedicated external connections to physical pods will help in wide spread adoption of CORD and accelerate community based innovation. In this talk, we will be going over how Flex working closely with On.Lab developed community lab with remote connection as part of its Lab-as -a-Service offering which is currently being used as QA POD for cord platform deployment. We are also looking to offer more physical PODs under community lab category as we believe this is valuable resource for CORD project groups since such labs provide an open collaboration environment for CORD members to focus on an impact results defined in the CORD roadmap. The CORD community lab @Flex is available for project groups to test new proof of concept and technologies solutions that are designed to address specific community driven use cases with CORD. Flex community lab outlines: 1. Provides multiple isolated PODs with secured routable 1G network access 2. Open network with VPN connection to lab infrastructure for community members