Welcome to CyVerse Container & Cloud Native Camp Documentation

Go to 8/16 - 8/18 Workshop Agenda

Welcome to our documentation on containers and orchestration in academic research and education.

Basic Container Camp

Docker Containers for Scientific Research

• Introduction to Docker
• Finding the Right Container

Containers on High Performance and High Throughput Computing

• Basics of SingularityCE
• Using SingularityCE on HPC and HTC

Cloud Native Camp

Orchestration

• Container Orchestration with Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

• Infrastructure as Code with Hashicorp Terraform
• CyVerse's Cloud Automation & Continuous Analysis Orchestration (CACAO)

Learning Objectives

After completing these two paired workshops, you should be able to:

* Explain why containers and orchestration are used in research computing
* Create your own containers and deploy your own orchestrated frameworks
* Understand how and when to use containers and IaC in your daily work

You will also leave with

- Understanding of how to use the most powerful public research computing infrastructure in the world via [ACCESS-CI](https://access-ci.org).
- The ability to launch and manage distributed resources using IaC templates on commercial (AWS, GCloud, Azure) or public research (OpenStack) clouds.

- Insight into commercial cloud services, their costs, and how to best utilize them for scientific research.

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Funding and Citations:

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