Early on May 26th our UPS had some sort of problem and lost the power, please restart your servers. If you have any questions please contact us at support@cloud.snic.se.
Best regards, C3SE
Author: Mathias Lindberg
Power surge in the WEST-1 region
At 15:30 a power surge killed every hypervisor in the region, please restart your servers. If you have any questions please contact us at support@cloud.snic.se.
Best regards, C3SE
New hardware in the C3SE region
Final acceptance testing is currently ongoing, more information about the new hardware can be found here https://www.c3se.chalmers.se/about/SSC/ . The upgrade also updates Openstack to the Rocky release, more information regarding Rocky can be found here https://www.openstack.org/software/rocky/
SNIC Science Cloud Workshop (May 2016)
Overview:
Instructor: Salman Toor.
Level: Basic.
Instructions: https://github.com/SNICScienceCloud/technical-training/tree/master/automation
Location: KTH, Stockholm.
Visiting address: Room 304, PDC Teknikringen 14, 3rd floor, KTH Stockholm
Infrastructure: SNIC Science Cloud (OpenStack based Community Cloud).
Date & duration: 31:st May, (10:00 – 16:00).
Audience: Users and potential users of SNIC Science Cloud resources with basic understanding of IaaS.
Registration:
Register here.
Topics:
- Introduction to SNIC Science Cloud (SSC).
- Virtual Machines and Containers.
- Resource Contextualization.
- Cloud Service Orchestration.
- Mantl, A Framework for Microservices Infrastructure.
Hands-on session topics:
1 – API based communication
2 – Resource contextualization using cloud-init
3 – Examples of automation with ansible-playbook
4 – Heat Orchestration Template (HOT)
5 – Getting started with Containers
Lab-Document (not ready yet)
Schedule:
First half (10:15 – 12:00): Lectures
Second half (13:00 – 16:00): Lab session
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.
Registration:
Registration has closed.
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
Schedule:
First half (10:15 – 12:00): Lectures
Second half (13:00 – 15:00): Lab session