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Description
IFMIF-DONES is a materials research facility on the European roadmap toward the commercialization of fusion energy, to be constructed near Granada in Spain. It will generate an intense, continuous flux of fusion-like neutrons to qualify materials for future fusion reactors. Its ambitious availability targets impose stringent reliability requirements on all components, particularly transversal and multi-contributor systems such as the control systems.
To address this, the central and local control system architectural and technological choices will be validated on a dedicated testing platform currently under development. Key aspects evaluated include the EPICS IOC deployment model (container-based) and the orchestration solution (currently assessing Ansible, Proxmox HA, Docker Swarm).
The aim is to provide all project contributors – across in kind, international, and local organisations – with a development kit to set up their own local development, test, and validation environment. To guarantee consistent and reproducible setups, an Ansible collection will deploy a generic containerized instance of each service.
This contribution reports on the design and current developing and testing progress of the Ansible collection for IFMIF-DONES, with a focus on the Phoebus services deployed so far.