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The Fermilab control system has been running the Accelerator Complex for more than 4 decades now. PIP-II and LBNF-Dune will require cutting-edge compute, data storage and modern applications and services to deliver the world’s most intense high-energy neutrino beam.
ACORN project aims to modernize the control system in many aspects, including hardware, infrastructure and software development/deployment practices consistent with modern day technology and culture.
The Controls department at Fermilab has been prototyping and deploying multiple EPICS services in Kubernetes for about three years now. This exercise has been a collaborative effort between PIP-II and ACORN for a hybrid control system and includes the fully automated deployment of EPICS services, in-house and EPICS-based web apps and a prototype for fully containerized, kubernetes-compatible IOCs; all under gitOps best practices and backed by CNCF software. This talk will explore our prototyping journey, the challenges we encountered (and those yet to come) and thoughts on how we can better support scientific facilities trying to run modern-day EPICS