CASE STUDY

Data Distribution Service (DDS)

DDS Interoperability Demo with Six Vendors on AWS

In a recent demonstration effort, Crucible automated the build and deployment of a DDS interoperability testbed featuring:

RTI, OpenDDS, Eprosima, S2E, Twin Oaks, Kongsberg
A custom RHEL 9 base image
Custom deployment of Shape Demo GUIs and RTPS binaries
Multicast-enabled VPC configuration on AWS
Image cache acceleration, allowing spin-up in minutes instead of hours

Identified Issues

Thanks to Crucible’s traceability and logging we rapidly diagnosed and documented:

Inconsistent discovery ports across vendors
GUI compatibility mismatches

DDS Interoperability Shapes Demo From Cached Images (~10 min, No Audio)

In-depth Full Build (from scratch) DDS Interoperability Shapes Demo (~35 min)

Future-Proofing DDS Demonstrations

With Crucible, the same demo framework can be extended to support:

Additional Operating Systems (Ubuntu, Windows)

Kubernetes-based orchestration of DDS nodes

Distributed test frameworks using Ansible

Automated compliance scanning for ATO readiness

Deployment into classified air-gapped enclaves

This extensibility ensures that DDS vendors and program stakeholders can iterate rapidly, collaborate securely, and scale consistently, no matter the cloud or network domain.

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