NREC – End User Documentation

Norwegian Research and Education Cloud

Contents:

• Introduction
  • About
  • Who can use the NREC cloud?
  • What can you do with the NREC cloud?
  • Concepts
  • Conventions
• Project application
  • Demo projects
  • Standard projects
• Logging in
  • First time login
  • Subsequent logins
• The dashboard
  • Overview
  • Choosing Region
  • Project tab
  • Identity tab
• Create a Linux virtual machine
  • SSH key pair
  • Create a virtual machine
  • Allowing SSH and ICMP access
  • Accessing the virtual machine
  • Doing the same with CLI
• Create a Windows virtual machine
  • Caveats and Limitations
  • Setting up a keypair
  • Create a virtual machine
  • Allowing RDP access
  • Retrive Admin password
  • Set Admin Password
  • Launch Remote Desktop
• Using SSH
  • Creating a key pair
  • Connecting to the instance
  • Connecting through a proxy
  • Transferring data
  • Deleting key pairs
  • Caveats and limitations
• Working with Security Groups
  • What is a Security Group?
  • Script snippets to create common security groups
  • The “default” Security Group
  • Understanding CIDR notations
  • Creating a Security Group
  • Adding Rules
  • Deleting Rules
  • Deleting a Security Group
  • Apply or Remove Security Groups
• Create and manage volumes
  • Create a volume
  • Attach a volume to a virtual machine
  • Detach a volume from a virtual machine
  • Delete a volume
  • Doing the same with CLI
• Create and manage snapshots
  • Create a snapshot
  • Launch a snapshot
  • Doing the same with CLI
• NREC GOLD images
  • Current GOLD images
  • Retired GOLD images
  • UiO Managed
• Create and manage snapshots
  • Creating
  • Downloading
  • Uploading
  • Launching
  • Deleting
• Instance console
  • Accessing the console
  • Console limitations
  • Example remote protocols

Advanced topics:

• The NREC DNS service
• OpenStack API and CLI (command line interface)
• (DISCONTINUED) High-Performance Computing (HPC)
• shared High-Performance Computing (sHPC)
• (BETA) Virtual GPU Accelerated instance (vGPU)
• Terraform and NREC: Part I - Basics
• Terraform and NREC: Part II - Additional resources
• Terraform and NREC: Part III - Dynamics
• Terraform and NREC: Part IV - Pairing with Ansible
• Terraform and NREC: Part V - DNS Management

Other:

• NREC Terms of Service
• Project Lifecycle
• Security Group Sanity Check
• Support
• Pricing
• ACL for Incoming Traffic
• Networking considerations
• Known Issues
• Troubleshoot
• Speculative Execution Attacks
• Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
• Changelog

Indices and tables

• Index
• Search Page