Overview:
Instructor: Salman Toor.
Level: Basic.
Location: Chalmers University of Technology, Room Raven & Fox, Fysik forskarhus 5th floor.
Visiting address: Chalmers Campus Johanneberg, Room Raven & Fox, Fysik forskarhus, 5th floor entrance Fysikgränd 3.
Infrastructure: SNIC Science Cloud (OpenStack based Community Cloud).
Date & duration: 25:th November, (10:00 – 16:00).
Audience: Users and potential users of SNIC Science Cloud resources with no previous cloud experience.
Registration:
Register here.
Topics:
- Brief overview of Cloud Computing.
- Cloud offerings: Compute, Storage, Network as a Service (*aaS).
- Brief description of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS etc.
- How to access Cloud resources?
- Introduction to SNIC Science Cloud initiative.
Hands-on session topics:
1 – How does the Horizon dashboard work?
2 – How to start a virtual machine (VM)?
3 – Instance snapshots.
4 – Access to cloud storage (volumes and Object store)
5 – Storage snapshot
5 – Network information
6 – Basic system interaction with APIs
Schedule:
First half (10:15 – 12:00): Lectures
Second half (13:00 – 16:00): Lab session