Community Cloud Conversation

• EDUCAUSE Cloud Computing Community Group (page includes link to subscribe to group listserv)
  • Slack Channel - Join here (current link expires 2/7/19 but will be renewed regularly)
  • 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
        
        • Mar 27 - Open Discussion
        • Feb 27 
          • Topic: VMWare/AWS integration 
          • Presenter: Nathan Thaler (MIT)
        • Jan 23 - Cloud Q & A for smaller institutions
      • 2018
        • Dec 5 - Excerpts from the 2018 Cornell Cloud Forum (recording and resources)

          1. 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

          2. 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

          3. 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

          4. Time Permitting: AWS re:Invent recap

        • Nov 1 - Open discussion at in-person meeting at EDUCAUSE Annual Meeting
        • Oct 24 - Open discussion (see notes)

Documents and Papers

• 7 Things You Should Know about Organizing Files in the Cloud (2011)

• 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) Research Computing in the Cloud: Functional Consideration for Research (2015)

  • ECAR Cloud Service Working Group   (CSWG)

  • • ECAR-CLOUD Project Proposal     Google Docs
    • Preparing the IT Organization for the Cloud (series, 2015-2016)
      
      • An Introduction to Preparing the IT Organization for the Cloud (2015)
      • Developing Cloud-Aware Governance (2015)
      • Transforming the IT Organization (2015)
      • Building a Migration Plan (2016)
      • Operationalizing the Cloud (2016)
      • Cloud Awareness and User Support (2016)
      • Cloud on the Horizon (2016)

  • If interested in joining an ECAR working group, please email   ECARWG@educause.edu

• ELI

  • (ELI) Learning Analytics: the Coming Third Wave (2011)
  • (ELI) Privacy Considerations in Cloud-based Teaching and Learning Environments (2011)
  • (ELI) If it's in the Cloud, Get it on Paper: Cloud Computing Contract Issues (2011)
    

• Spotlight on Cloud Computing Series

• Cloud Contracting (2010)

• Infrastructure as a Service (2010)

• Impact! (2010)

• Professional Development and Staffing for the Cloud (2010)

• Google Apps at Brown (2010)

• Community Clouds (2010)

• Heading for the Clouds? Build Your Own First! (2010)

• A Community Discussion of Google Apps (2010)

• Community-Generated Documentation
  • 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

    • AWS Account Basics for Education

    • Managing AWS Accounts for Education

    • AWS Identity and Access Management for Education

    • AWS Billing and Cost Management for Education

    • Networking for Education

    • AWS Audit and Access Logging for Education

    • Checklist for AWS Account Administration and Networking in Education

• • AWS  Cloud Transformation Maturity Model

  • AWS Well Architected Framework

  • AWS Security Best Practices

  • AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

  • A Practical Guide to Cloud Migration

  • AWS YouTube channel

  • AWS Labs on GitHub

  • AWS Official Training and Certifications

  • FERPA Compliance on AWS

  • 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

    • Microservices on AWS

      • 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
    • Cisco CSR Implementation Guide

re:Invent 2016 Sessions

• • Governance Strategies for Cloud Transformation  (featuring the University of Maryland)
  • How Harvard University Improves Scalable Cloud Network Security
  • The Cloud Is Enterprise Ready: The University of Arizona

Unofficial Resources

• • The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services

  • Awesome AWS

  • A Cloud Guru Certification Courses

  • Linux Academy Certification Training

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Resources

• Choosing the right compute option in GCP: a decision tree

• Preparing a Container Engine Environment for Production

• Going multi-cloud with Google Cloud Endpoints and AWS Lambda

• Solution Guides

  • Building connected vehicle apps with Cloud IoT Core

  • Best practices for migrating Virtual Machines

• Case Studies

  • 580,000 cores and counting: MIT math professor breaks record for largest ever Compute Engine job

• Training: 

  • Free Coursera courses for GCP (includes QwikLabs credits) - request form
  • Training center site
    

    
    

General Resources