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ARDC Nectar Research Cloud Tutorials

Build your practical cloud skills with Nectar Research Cloud self-paced online tutorials.

Whether you are getting started, increasing your efficiency or looking to hone your cloud skills and make your solutions more sophisticated. Our technical tutorials are for beginner, intermediate and advanced users and we also explain some of our non-technical topics.

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Series Nectar Series
Cloud Starter Series
17 September 2019

Get started in the Nectar Research Cloud with this tutorial series. Learn how easy it is to launch VMs, to connect and to try something new.

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 160 minutes
Series Nectar Series
Cloud Two
16 December 2020

Take the next step to discover some of the more advanced Nectar Research Cloud topics.

Difficulty: 3 out of 5
Duration: 160 minutes
Series Nectar Series
Cloud Expert
16 December 2020

Become a Cloud Expert and learn about the advanced topics and services available on the Nectar Research Cloud.

Difficulty: 5 out of 5
Duration: 160 minutes
Non-technical
Allocation Management
17 September 2019

Understand, manage and maintain an allocation in the Nectar Research Cloud

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 23 minutes
Beginner
Applications
24 September 2019

Learn to quick deploy an application environment from our catalog with this R-Studio example.

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 24 minutes
Beginner
Rebooting, Deleting, Rebuilding, Resizing
17 September 2019

Making changes to existing instances. Learn to reboot, resize, rebuild and delete instances.

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 32 minutes
Beginner
Command line, sudo and apt
17 September 2019

Find your way around your instance from the command line. Learn to use admin privileges and install and maintain software.

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 35 minutes
Beginner
AARNet CloudStor
13 November 2019

Learn how to connect your AARNet CloudStor storage to your Virtual Machine

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 16 minutes
Beginner
Access using SSH and VNC
14 May 2019

Access your Virtual Machine's command line using your Terminal and SSH and web-based VNC console.

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 17 minutes
Beginner
Creating a keypair for use in Nectar
10 September 2019

Understanding Public-Private Keypairs in the Nectar Research Cloud.

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 16 minutes
Beginner
Launching Virtual Machines
14 May 2019

Launching a virtual machine using the Nectar dashboard and the launch dialog

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 25 minutes
Beginner
Moving data
24 September 2019

Learn some basic ways of copying data to and from your Nectar instance.

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 18 minutes
Beginner
Prereading for beginners
8 September 2021

A tutorial for absolute beginners who haven't used or interacted with the Cloud before

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 10 minutes
Beginner
Security groups, the absolute basics
10 September 2019

Get ready to launch with the bare minimum ssh Security Group for your Nectar instance.

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 15 minutes
Intermediate
Security practices on the Nectar Cloud
21 February 2022

Learn about some of the essential practices for being secure on Nectar

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 45 minutes
Intermediate
Simple container service
20 December 2021

Learn how to deploy a Docker Container using our application service!

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 30 minutes
Beginner
Snapshots
5 November 2019

Learn to use Snapshot to make a copy or backup of a Nectar instance.

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 15 minutes
Beginner
Virtual Desktop Service
18 November 2021

Learn how to use the Nectar Virtual Desktop service

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 20 minutes
Beginner
Volume Storage
26 September 2019

Learn to use Volume Storage: Nectar's virtual USB-sticks.

Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 21 minutes
Intermediate
DNS with the Nectar DNS service
19 September 2019

Learn to manage your domain name records in Nectar

Difficulty: 2 out of 5
Duration: 20 minutes
Intermediate
Intermediate Security Groups
20 February 2020

Learn to use advanced security groups in Nectar Research Cloud.

Difficulty: 2 out of 5
Duration: 37 minutes
Intermediate
X11 Forwarding
28 November 2019

Learn to use X11 Forwarding to run graphical applications on virtual machines.

Difficulty: 2 out of 5
Duration: 15 minutes
Intermediate
Application Credentials
8 September 2020

Learn to use Application Credentials to authenticate your application in Nectar Cloud.

Difficulty: 3 out of 5
Duration: 15 minutes
Advanced
Kubernetes
2 January 2020

Learn how to create and administer your own Kubernetes cluster using the Nectar Orchestration service.

Difficulty: 3 out of 5
Duration: 60 minutes
Intermediate
Object Storage
18 December 2019

Learn to use Nectar Object Storage.

Difficulty: 3 out of 5
Duration: 60 minutes
Intermediate
OpenStack CLIs
25 February 2020

A basic introduction to Nectar Cloud OpenStack command line interfaces (CLI).

Difficulty: 3 out of 5
Duration: 27 minutes
Intermediate
Sharing your Virtual Machine
6 April 2022

Share your VM securely by adding keys and/or adding a new user account

Difficulty: 3 out of 5
Duration: 40 minutes
Advanced
Database
30 January 2020

A basic tutorial to learn how to use the database as a service in Nectar Research Cloud.

Difficulty: 4 out of 5
Duration: 91 minutes
Intermediate
Migration
2 August 2021

How to migrate various cloud resources, including volume, normal instance, legacy instance, databases & more.

Difficulty: 4 out of 5
Duration: 120 minutes
Advanced
Orchestration
27 February 2020

Explore the power of the Orchestration service for creating template driven cloud architectures.

Difficulty: 4 out of 5
Duration: 50 minutes
Advanced
Advanced Networking
20 May 2019

Learn to implement some advanced networking concepts in your Nectar Research Cloud project

Difficulty: 5 out of 5
Duration: 58 minutes
Advanced
Loadbalancing
2 November 2020

Using loadbalancing for scalable, fault-tolerant cloud architectures.

Difficulty: 5 out of 5
Duration: 60 minutes

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The Nectar Research Cloud is a service of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and utilises the Nectar Research Cloud. The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program (NCRIS). Read more about the ARDC...

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