Getting Started on Cloud Computing

This is the repository of a workshop/lesson "Getting Started on Cloud Computing". It uses the Jekyll styles and site setup of The Carpentries but is in no way officially affiliated with them. This lessons builds on an alpha-version of the lesson on Introduction to Using the Shell in a High-Performance Computing Context. But rather than a focus on HPC, it focuses on more private cloud computing, i.e. running your code on a typical AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Linux instance. For that purpose, some things were changed:

• Added an episode with general history on computing an some explanation what the Cloud actually is
• Added an episode that explains how you typically set up a cloud instance, in the example Azure is used but general principles are discussed.
• Less focus on security when connecting to SSH. No RSA-keypairs are used in the workshop itself, this part is shortened and moved to a callout.
• Added three versions of an episode that discusses how to run your own programming code. The three versions are for three languages: Python, R and Java.
• Added a lesson that discusses tmux, so users can easily disconnect when their computations are running, and cron, in case they want to run something periodically (e.g. scraping)

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