Thanks Titus, Do you have an estimate of what the total AWS cost was for the session? (To help us convince sources of financial support…)
Cheers, L. > On 9 Aug 2017, at 01:32, C. Titus Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I put this together for a tutorial last week, and I have to say it went > amazingly smoothly: > > https://github.com/mblmicdiv/course2017/blob/master/exercises/sourmash-setup.md > > Briefly, > > * I started a big Amazon machine; > * I installed Docker and built a custom image containing my software of > interest; > * I ran multiple containers, one connected to port 8000, one on 8001, etc. > and gave each student a different port; > * students could connect in and use the Terminal program in Jupyter to > execute commands, and could upload/download files via the Jupyter console > interface; > * in theory I could have used notebooks too, but for this I didn’t have need. > > I am aware that JupyterHub can probably do all of this including manage the > containers, but I’m still a bit shy of diving into that; this was fairly > straightforward, gave me disposable containers that were isolated for each > individual student, and worked almost flawlessly. Should be easy to do with > RStudio too. > > Other write-ups to do similar things with your favorite setup would be great! > > best, > —titus > > p.s. the actual tutorial that students ran was here: > https://github.com/mblmicdiv/course2017/blob/master/exercises/sourmash.md > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss -- Leighton Pritchard [email protected] gpg/pgp:0xDECACFFC
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