About Karaage

Deprecated

This project will no longer be used after early July, and will be marked as archived. This is not due to any problems with the project as such. It is still a good solution for the problem it is intended to solve.

If you want to use it, please contact Brian May.

What is Karaage?

Karaage is a cluster account management tool. It can manage users and projects in a cluster and can store the data in various backends.

Features

  • Can store user information and/or posix account information in LDAP/Active Directory/passwd file.
  • Email notifications.
  • Auto account creation - Allow project leaders to manage their users.
  • Applications work flow - Users can apply for accounts and be approved by project leaders.
  • Usage reporting. Report on a per institute, per project or per user for CPU usage.
  • Track usage of software and versions. Keep track of what software (and version) and type of jobs a user

Source code

Karaage is open source code and available under the GPL3 license. You can find the source code for Karaage at GitHub.