Fedcloud-tf:Zero Surface Teaching
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Introduction
Features
Infrastructure as a Service model
- Use federated EGI compute and storage resources
- No port restrictions on incoming/outgoing network traffic
- Public IP adresses available
Class preparation
- In the preparation phase, VM images intended to be deployed in Cloud infrastructure are tested for suitability
- Network configuration
- Disabled swap
- image size
- etc.
Lightweight access control
- Weak user authentication based on Name, Email address
- Credentials valid for up to two consecutive weeks
- No strong identity verification
- Temporary access to compute resources
- Temporary storage
- Temporary storage for uploading and distributing VM images
Integrated VM management interface
- Upload your VMs once, instantiate and access them anywhere (restrictions apply)
- Start/stop VMs from command line
Services
User identity and access provisioning
- Provide a list of tutors and a list of students with name and Email addresses.
- Each tutor and student will:
- Receive a short-lived access credential (certificates)
- a pair of SSH keys
Pre-configured VM images for classroom infrastructure
- Pre-packaged VMs may be ordered for local class-room infrastructure equipped with VirtualBox
- Individualised for each student and tutor with ssh keys and certificate
- Includes necessary command-line tools for cloud access and authorisation
- Based on Debian GNU Linux with a basic GNOME desktop
- Delivered on a USB stick that students may keep
VM preparation support
- Tutors may order support for preparing VM images
- Experts help in provisioning base images according to tutor needs
- Deploy "well-known" applications or platforms (e.g. LAMP)
Persistent VM Images
- Upon request, EGI may provision persistent VM instances. That is the state of a VM instance will be preserved while shutdown (e.g. database contents!)
Resource consumption overview
- After the teaching class is over, tutors may order an overview of the resources that were consumed during the class.