Background

The MiGrid project started all the way back in 2003 and back then was focused on providing a complete grid compute middleware. It still does that but has seen more heavy use as a platform for storing, sharing, analyzing and publishing research data in recent years. In order to spread the use and contribution the team behind has long ago open-sourced the whole code base and later provided this docker-migrid project to ease deployment through a number of containers running the individual services in a self-contained way and without knowing all the nitty-gritty details about software dependencies and internal communication.

The core MiGrid developers are still around and can elaborate on the details and the simple but rather strict design principles going all the way back to the conception of the project.