Web site: https://bluebanquise.com

BlueBanquise is a coherent Ansible roles collection, designed to deploy and manage large group of hosts (clusters of nodes).

While main target is High Performance Computing (HPC), the BlueBanquise stack is generic and can adapt to any kind of architecture (university or enterprise infrastructures, render farm, etc.).

BlueBanquise is part of the Algoric Project from the Fabrique du Loch FabLab.

It is a revamping of the old stack Banquise, based on Salt.

The stack is split over multiple repositories:

• 🌐 Core: the CORE of the stack, provides roles and tools to deploy and configure hosts.

• ⭐ Community: COMMUNITY roles and tools, provides additional features on top of CORE. The release cycle of COMMUNITY is different than CORE.

The stack documentation is available on the BlueBanquise website, in documentation subfolder.

Note that each role (CORE or COMMUNITY) embeds its own readme, with detailed usage description.

The stack packages are available in the repositories subfolder.

Ansible >= 2.9.13 is mandatory for BlueBanquise to run properly.

OpenHPC scientific packages and OpenHPC slurm job scheduler are compatible with the stack.

You may wonder where this name comes from:

• BlueBanquise
• Blue Iceberg

Special thanks:

• to CINES who provided Algoric team with hardware to develop this stack.
• to @remyd1 for his help on Banquise original stack.
• to @bouriquet for his active help on the stack.
• to @btravouillon for his active help on the stack.