See update from 2023 on SLAC Grouper container in Amazon AWS ECS Elastic Container Service

As of 2020, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory embarked on a program to replace a number of IAM systems with Internet2 InCommon Trusted Access Platform components. The Grouper component is one of the first to be investigated for adoption as it requires the fewest pre-requisite changes before it can provide a visible benefit for the program.

The first phase of deployment is to supplement existing NIS/LDAP groups, which are maintained using manual/scripted process today. 

Goals include:

• Provide automation around affiliation status events
• Simplify delegation of group management tasks
• Provide web services interface or loaders for managing experiment groups
• Provision groups to Active Directory
• Eventual retirement of NIS (YP commands)