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

Lab-Document


Schedule:

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