systems architecture

Overview Chameleon has historically enabled researchers to orchestrate complex appliances—large, multi-node clusters configured via OpenStack Heat—to conduct advanced experiments. Meanwhile, Trovi has emerged as a service for sharing reproducible artifacts. This project aims to bridge the two by adding support in Trovi for importing, discovering, and launching complex appliances.

Overview Chameleon already provides powerful capabilities to orchestrate and configure resources through Heat templates (similar to Terraform) and the python-chi library. However, these focus primarily on provisioning (i.e., allocating and configuring hardware resources).