User documentation - CLAAUDIA Compute Cloud Strato

Hello and welcome to the documentation for the CLAAUDIA Cloud. The documentation is targeted at our Strato project. To get valuable feedback from the strato phase CLAAUDIA expects the following of the participants

• You to make use of the facilities.
• That you provide feedback on your experience with phase 1.
• You must not use AAU sensitive or GDPR restricted data in phase 1.
• That you participate in a user-to-user self-help group.
• Syslog from instances will be sent to ITS logging system.
• There will NOT be made backup of the data you upload to the cloud, so do not delete your own copy. The data is safe in the cloud, as the storage system replicates it. There is just no additional backup, so if you by accident delete it from the cloud, it will be gone, and needs to be re-uploaded.
• You will have full onwership of the instance you create and can therefore install additional software, tweak it or use it as is.

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What is CLAAUDIA Compute Cloud Strato

CLAAUDIA Compute Cloud Strato is a compute cloud hosted at AAU. The cloud is based on OpenStack. A user can launch multiple instances based on different flavors and images. The flavour is the computing resource and the image is the OS+software.

Flavour Name	VCPUs	RAM	Disk
m1.small	1	8GB	1TB
m1.medium	2	16GB	1TB
m1.large	4	32GB	1TB
m1.xlarge	8	64GB	1TB
m1.2xlarge	16	128GB	1TB
m1.4xlarge	32	256GB	1TB

CLAAUDIA Compute Cloud Strato glossary

Quick-start - Your first instance

Follow the guide to get your first Ubuntu 18.04 instance up and running in minutes! The guide will take you through the steps of logging in to the cloud, setting up an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS instance and accessing the instance with SSH.

Quick-start - Your first instance

Prebuilt image documentation

In Strato, a range of different pre-built images will be available. Every image is based on an AAU-flavored version of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The AAU-flavored Ubuntu image is accessible through SSH with a key-pair. Derived images are also accessible through SSH, the images with a web-interface require additional setup to access them via a browser.

Image list

Image Name	Version	Use case	Guide
ubuntu_18.04	18.04 LTS Cloud	Base-ubuntu-image for the user to build upon.	Ubuntu 18.04 cloud
ubuntu_18.04_science	18.04 LTS Cloud AAU Flavoured	An Ubuntu image loaded with debian science packages.	Ubuntu 18.04 science
RStudio-Server	R v3.6	RStudio server accessible in a browser.	RStudio guide
Matlab R2019b	Matlab R2019b	Matlab R2019b server.	Matlab guide
JupyterHub	Anaconda3 4.7.12	Jupyterhub with standard conda packages.	JupyterHub guide
Anaconda3	Anaconda3 4.7.12	Ready to use conda environment with standard packages.	Anaconda3 guide
COMSOL5.4	COMSOL Multiphysics 5.4	COMSOL Multiphysics instance for client-server (Requires license to use)	COMSOL guide
Homemade image	Your_special_image	Upload and use your own image in the cloud.	Homemade Image
Ubuntu RDP	RDP+XFCE	RDP image with XFCE desktop environment	Ubuntu RDP Image

Cloud guides

Learn about more advanced Openstack features E.g. deleting instances, releasing IPs or using the openstack CLI.

• Cloud CLI
• Stop, pause & delete instances
• Custom volume size
• Custom security groups
• Save instances as image
• Using putty
• Using Windows Command Prompt
• Attaching a volume for additional storage

Discussion Forum

To support as many as possible we have created a Yammer Compute Cloud Group. The Yammer Compute Cloud Group is a forum to ask questions and share tips/tricks. The idea is to answer questions once, but let everyone benefit from it.

Yammer Compute Cloud Group

Support

Direct support is also possible. Please ask your question by submitting an email to support@its.aau.dk