Higher Ed Cloud Community Conversation and Additional Resources

Community Cloud Conversation

EDUCAUSE Cloud Computing Community Group (page includes link to subscribe to group listserv)
- 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
      - August 28 - Supporting Research in the Cloud
      - July 24 - Open Discussion
      - June 26 - Cloud Community Events and Activity
        Recap of Cloud Networking Workshop put on by U Michigan, U Minnesota and Internet2 (Alok Vimawala - UMich)
        Update on Cornell Cloud Forum 2019 (Sarah Christen - Cornell)
        CCCG Engagement Channels (Bob Flynn - IU)
        CCCG Engagement Team (Jody Couch - UCSC)
        (recording and slides)
      - May 22 - Open Discussion
        Announcements
        Reminder: CFP for 2019 Cornell Cloud Forum closes June 1 https://bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bCyJsiOkPsm3tAh
        Cloud Forum dates: November 6-8, 2019
        #cloud_jobs channel added to CCCG Slack Team - post your cloud jobs there!
        Firewalling in AWS: Paul Peterson from Emory talked about networking strategies for their non-research AWS environment. (slides)
      - April 24 - Google Cloud Platform
        Evolution of GCP at an Office 365 University – presentation by John Bailey, WUSTL
        With Great Integration Comes Great Responsibility (a.k.a. GCP at a G Suite School) – presentation by Bob Flynn, IU
        Google CAB GCP Track
        News from Google Cloud Next
        Tech bulletin: Don't fear the mystery folder. Unexpected visitor due to Google change https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/cloud-platform-projects. - Ananya Ravipati, IU
        IU GCP configuration document https://iu.box.com/s/5h6zj9l5dawie8crigc8m1v647kksw20
        Internet2 NET+ GCP contract - Sara Jeanes, Internet2
        (notes | slides & recording)
      - Mar 27 - Open Discussion
        Performance testing of moving data from one cloud provider to another
        SSO with AWS and how to federate external users
        Upcoming AWS webinar series
        Options for handling cloud training needs
        Call for (self-)nominations for CCCG co-chairs
        (notes | recording)
      - Feb 27 - Open Discussion (notes)
      - Jan 23 - Cloud Q & A for Small Schools (recording and resources)
    - 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 Cruz
        Title: 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 Illinois
        Title: 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/Yb6Hfr
        Time 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.