SOLVed-IT

IT stack for small scientific work groups fostering digital methods and processes

SOLVed-IT – Small Organisation Linux-based Virtualised IT – aims at providing an IT stack for small scientific work groups that can neither fall back on university/institutional IT nor afford an IT person themselves, that do not want to buy services externally (SaaS) due to data protection reasons, but still do not want to work without essential building blocks of a digital research paradigm.

SOLVed-IT is not yet another tool. It simply provides the “glue” and automatisation to deploy existing and proven open-source tools, such as Web-UIs for the git version control system, an electronic lab notebook (ELN), or a laboratory information and management system (LIMS). Additionally, it summarises best practices in how to setup an IT stack and how to maintain it with minimal personal resources.

Features

  • Resilient,

  • easy to maintain (due to a high degree of automation),

  • robust,

  • modular and

  • easily expandable.

Core components

  • electronic lab notebook (ELN) – LabInform ELN

  • local repository for “warm” research data – LabInform datasafe

  • laboratory information and management system (LIMS) – LabInform

  • Web UI for version control system – gitea/forgejo

Basic technology

  • Debian Linux host operating system

  • Virtual machines (kvm)

  • Docker containers

  • Ansible as automation tool

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the BSD License.