Platform checklist

For third-party software EBRAINS operates as infrastructure. Its development happens upstream, so the ladder is about operating it: provisioning, integration, monitoring and reliability.

Service types: platform · Rubric: EBRAINS default, version x4

How to read it: a level is reached when all of its conditions are met, and levels are climbed in order. Waived conditions are not required yet and are always shown as waived. A condition can be marked not applicable for a service (a status page cannot monitor itself); it then drops out of the level.

TRL 1 · Project initiation

• Platform registered with its purpose and owner
  Met when any of:
  • Service description recorded
  • Owner contact recorded
  • Use case recorded

TRL 2 · Conceptualisation

• Platform provisioned (reachable URL or container image)
  Met when any of:
  • Web app URL recorded
  • Containerised
  • Deployment URL recorded

TRL 3 · Proof of concept implementation

• Wired into the EBRAINS ecosystem (IAM, Knowledge Graph or registry)
  Met when any of:
  • Auth integration: hbp_keycloak or ebrains_keycloak
  • Knowledge graph integration more than 0
  • Docker registry integration more than 0
  • EBRAINS ecosystem integration recorded

TRL 4 · Prototype component

• Running in an operational environment
  Met when any of:
  • Deployment environment: staging or production
  • Deployed environments include production
  • Web app accessible

TRL 5 · Prototype integration

• Monitoring in place
  Met when any of:
  • Uptime monitoring: yes
  • Uptime percentage (30 days) more than 0

TRL 6 · Pilot-scale prototype to real-world integration

• Operated at real-world scale with backups, maintainers or support
  Met when any of:
  • Backup strategy recorded
  • Maintainer count at least 1
  • Has maintainer recorded
  • Support channels recorded
  • Uptime percentage (30 days) at least 95

TRL 7 · Operational integration

• Deployed in production with all key functionality
  Met when any of:
  • Deployment environment: production
  • Deployed environments include production
• System monitoring points implemented
  Met when any of:
  • Uptime monitoring: yes
  • Uptime percentage (30 days) more than 0
• Integrated with the EBRAINS ecosystem
  Met when any of:
  • Auth integration: hbp_keycloak or ebrains_keycloak
  • Knowledge graph integration more than 0
  • Docker registry integration more than 0
  • EBRAINS ecosystem integration recorded
• SLA monitored
  Waived — EBRAINS runs no SLA programme yet.

TRL 8 · Deployment

• Proven to work in its final form under expected conditions
  Met when: Uptime percentage (30 days) at least 99.
• Operational documentation completed (runbooks, procedures)
  Met when any of:
  • Runbooks documented recorded
  • Knowledge Graph documentation URL recorded
  • README quality: good or comprehensive
  • Documentation strategy recorded
• Serving real EBRAINS users
  Met when any of:
  • IAM active users more than 0
  • Users count more than 0
  • Deployment environment: production
• SLA enforced
  Waived — EBRAINS runs no SLA programme yet.

TRL 9 · Production

• Operated over the full range of conditions with sustained reliability
  Met when: Uptime percentage (30 days) at least 99.9.
• Target number of real users
  Met when: iam_active_users ≥ 50 (gap-tolerant if no IAM telemetry).
• Service engineering and follow-up support in place
  Met when any of:
  • Support channels recorded
  • Issue tracking recorded
  • Incident response plan recorded

Generated from the rubric Ready evaluates. Organisations can assess their own catalogues against their own rubric in Ready; those results are labelled as such and are not the EBRAINS default.