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; browse or search our catalog below.

We're bundling together tutorials in series of related topics, the first of which, Cloud Starter Series, is now published. We will be publishing more tutorials and series soon, be sure to check back.

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

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

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

Allocation Management

17 September 2019

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

Difficulty: 1 out of 5

Duration: 23 minutes

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

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

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

AARNet Cloudstor

13 November 2019

Learn to use AARNet Cloudstor in Nectar's Virtual Machine

Difficulty: 1 out of 5

Duration: 16 minutes

Access using SSH and VNC

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

Deploying a Hadoop/Spark Cluster

21 September 2021

Learn how to deploy a Hadoop/Spark Cluster using Elasticluster

Difficulty: 1 out of 5

Duration: 10 minutes

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

Launching Virtual Machines

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

Difficulty: 1 out of 5

Duration: 25 minutes

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

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

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

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

Volume Storage

26 September 2019

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

Difficulty: 1 out of 5

Duration: 21 minutes

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 Security Groups

20 February 2020

Learn to use advanced security groups in Nectar Research Cloud.

Difficulty: 2 out of 5

Duration: 37 minutes

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

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

Deploying a Slurm Workload Manager cluster

21 September 2021

Learn how to deploy the Slurm Workload Manager with ElastiCluster.

Difficulty: 3 out of 5

Duration: 30 minutes

Kubernetes

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

Difficulty: 3 out of 5

Duration: 60 minutes

Object Storage

18 December 2019

Learn to use Nectar Object Storage.

Difficulty: 3 out of 5

Duration: 60 minutes

OpenStack CLIs

25 February 2020

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

Difficulty: 3 out of 5

Duration: 27 minutes

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

Migration

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

Difficulty: 4 out of 5

Duration: 120 minutes

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 Networking

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

Difficulty: 5 out of 5

Duration: 58 minutes

Loadbalancing

2 November 2020

Using loadbalancing for scalable, fault-tolerant cloud architectures.

Difficulty: 5 out of 5

Duration: 60 minutes