UH-IaaS-mini-workshop

Time: 2 hours

Prerequisites: Knowledge of the Linux command line, and SSH key pairs

Course content:

1. Background
2. Initial login, and making a server
3. Let’s log in!
4. Attaching storage
5. Initializing storage

Web site:

https://arnsteio.github.io/UH-IaaS-mini-workshop/

Notes on teaching:

First run with this material (the CLI-only workshop) february -18:

• 2 hours is just enough time
• Very helper heavy (one helper per two participants is about right. This is shockingly much)
• Main problems were:
  • Problems installing openstack-cli. Exacerbated with Mac and Windows machines in addition to different Linux flavours.
  • People on Windows machines had some problems uploading SSH keys.
  • People on Windows machines had problems sending their keys with their initial ssh logins.
  • Making keystone_rc.sh took time for some people.
  • People didn’t really have the prerequisites in place.
• Suggestions for next time:
  • Make sure everyone has GUI access. In practice, make sure only UiO-internal people can sign up :-/
  • Give people access to a linux server with openstack-cli installed.
  • Consider giving people a finished keystone.rc-file for a test project. Both these last two suggestions would somewhat defeat the point of the workshop, though.
  • Give people access to the Git repo immediately to save people time typing.
• Survey results are in. Participants were happy, this is surprising to me as I though the workshop was heavy going.

To address these issues I’ve begun adapting and adding back old material to make a new 3-hour workshop at https://arnsteio.github.io/UH-IaaS-workshop/. I’ll still teach this 2-hour CLI-only workshop if people wish me to, but I prefer doing either 2-hour mainly CLI or 3-hour GUI and CLI.