Community Cloud Conversation
- Slack Team - Join here
- Monthly Higher Ed Cloud Call
- Format: Meetings alternate between presentations one month to open discussion the next
- Details:
- When: Occurs the fourth Wednesday of the month at 9am PT/12pm ET.
- Where: https://internet2.zoom.us/j/408515294
- Running Agenda/Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u77yjKezUWczi6kiFr0qC3THEMc4OLXY7ldMRFYyYrY/edit?usp=sharing
- Meeting topics:
- 2019
- April 24 - Google Cloud Platform
- Presentations from John Bailey (WUSTL) on rolling out GCP for a non-G Suite school and Bob Flynn (IU) on GCP for G Suite schools
- Information on the new NET+ GCP contract
- News from Google Cloud Next
- Mar 27 - Open Discussion (notes | recording)
- Feb 27 - Open Discussion (notes)
- Jan 23 - Cloud Q & A for Small Schools (recording and resources)
- April 24 - Google Cloud Platform
- 2018
- Dec 5 - Excerpts from the 2018 Cornell Cloud Forum (recording and resources)
Title: Ouch! Commonly Overlooked (or Surprising) Cloud Costs
Description: “Wait … that costs how much?” How do you prepare stakeholders for cloud-related charges that were provided ‘for free’ while on-premise? What new charges exist in the Cloud? What are the associated costs? Most importantly, who is going to pay them?
Presenters: Kari Robertson and Glenn Blackler - UC Santa CruzTitle: Using AWS CLI with Shibboleth and Duo https://github.com/techservicesillinois/awscli-login
Description: How can higher education give our faculty and staff convenient access to AWS tools without leaving behind a mess of long-lived secret keys? We’ll demonstrate a University of Illinois plugin to the AWS CLI which authenticates against Shibboleth with Duo and manages short-lived credentials, making it easy to be secure.
Presenter: Chris Kuehn - University of IllinoisTitle: Kubernetes: Container Orchestration at Scale
Description: Kubernetes is a resource scheduler that started as a Google project. Now it is the primary container scheduler being adopted across the spectrum of both cloud and on-prem based deployments. With an extensible scale-first architecture it’s easy to see why its adoption has outpaced other solutions such as Docker Swarm and Mesos. The goal is to present on the architecture of Kubernetes and basics of running Kubernetes at scale.
Presenter: Jeff Sica - University of Michigan
Resources: “Introduction to Kubernetes” open-source eight-hour 100-level labs: https://goo.gl/uHq6T4 and presentation: https://goo.gl/Yb6HfrTime Permitting: AWS re:Invent recap
- Nov 1 - Open discussion at in-person meeting at EDUCAUSE Annual Meeting
- Oct 24 - Open discussion (see notes)
- Sep 26 - Funding models for new cloud paradigms (speakers: David Seidl- Notre Dame, Ben Rota - Harvard)
- Aug 22 - Notre Dame and the Cloud - Over the past three years, Notre Dame University has moved more than 80% of their IT infrastructure and services to Amazon Web Services (AWS). On this month's Higher Education Cloud Collaboration conference call, leaders from Notre Dame University will provide an overview of their move to AWS, and will share their lessons learned and advice for other institutions.
- Dec 5 - Excerpts from the 2018 Cornell Cloud Forum (recording and resources)
- 2019
- What Campus Leaders Need to Know About Cloud Computing (2011)
- A Vision for cloud - and Earth-based services at UC Davis (2011)
ECAR
(ECAR) Cloud Strategy for Higher Education: Building a Common Solution (2014)
(ECAR) Total Cost of Ownership for Cloud Services: A Framework (2015)
ECAR Cloud Service Working Group
- Google Docs
- Preparing the IT Organization for the Cloud (series, 2015-2016)
Spotlight on Cloud Computing Series
- Community-Generated Documentation
- Documentation for Cloud Computing and Data Science (U Washington)
- Documentation for Cloud Computing and Data Science (U Washington)
Platform-Specific Resources
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Resources
AWS Official Resources
AWS Getting Started Videos for Education
Lambda, API Gateway, and Microservices
Getting Started with Serverless Architectures Webinar
Video: several best practices at ~38 min mark
Building Serverless Backends with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway Webinar
Video: deeper dive into Lambda and API gateway
Whitepaper: overview of AWS microservices and interaction between them
- Controlling Access to API Gateway
- Lambda Limits
- Lambda deployments
Fully managed with AWS Code Pipeline
Most complete option for modeling and automating your deployment steps
Leverages Code Pipeline (workflow automation), Code Deploy (build, test, and package your code), S3 (store code package), and CloudFormation (deployment)
Partially managed with AWS CloudFormation (blog entry with S3 integration)
Primarily focused on deploying your code instead of using the console
- Blog entry on using Jenkins if you already have an environment
- Apache Spark and EMR
Best Practices for Apache Spark on AWS Webinar
Video: a discussion about storage options and best practices with EMR at ~32 min mark
- Using spot instances with EMR
- Transit VPCs
re:Invent 2016 Sessions
Unofficial Resources
Going multi-cloud with Google Cloud Endpoints and AWS Lambda
Solution Guides
Case Studies
Training:
- Free Coursera courses for GCP (includes QwikLabs credits) - request form
- Training center site