Introduction to Cloud and Virtual Machines
Tuesday, July 5
9:30am–12:30pm Pacific Time
Instructor: Venkat Mahadevan (UBC)
Course plan:
- An introduction to basic Internet and cloud concepts.
- An overview of the Compute Canada cloud platform.
- Creating virtual machines and using Secure Shell (SSH) to securely access them.
- Deploying R Studio on CC cloud.
- Securing your virtual machines.
- Maintaining your cloud environment and virtual machines.
Target audience: general
Level: beginner
Prerequisites: basic knowledge of Linux command line
Software: All attendees will need a remote secure shell (SSH) client installed on their computer in order to
participate in the course exercises. On Windows we recommend
the free Home Edition of MobaXterm. On Mac and Linux computers SSH is
usually pre-installed (try typing ssh in a terminal to make sure it is there).
Zoom
9:30am-12:30pm Pacific
Live session in 30-40 min presentation blocks
You can download the workshop slides here.