Applied Cloud Computing Workshop (Spring 2016)

Overview:

Instructor: Salman Toor.
Level: Basic.

Location: SciLifeLab Gamma Level 6 (Pascal), Stockholm.

Visiting address: Science for Life Laboratory, Tomtebodavägen 23A, 17165 Solna, Sweden.

Infrastructure: SNIC Science Cloud (OpenStack based Community Cloud).

Date & duration: 30:th March, (10:00 – 16:00).

Audience: Users and potential users of SNIC Science Cloud resources with no previous cloud experience.


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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 Horizon dashboard works?
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

Lab-Document


Schedule:

First half (10:15 – 12:00): Lectures
Second half (13:00 – 15:00): Lab session