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admin-collection

Excluding certain domains and subdomains from RONIN

If you are using your RONIN domain for other production services, they need to be identified as "protected domains", so that they can be excluded from the RONIN UI. This blog post provides the necessary steps for you to set up the required parameter to do so.

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RONIN Release: Wednesday 26th June 2024

Major Features NEW Admin Audit Dashboard * Dynamic table of all actions performed in RONIN across all users and projects * Default view is all actions across the previous week, however filters on Actions, Users, Projects/RPIDs, Resource Names/Types and Dates can be used to narrow down your search and investigate

software-collection

How to install and use Quarto with RStudio on a RONIN Machine

Quarto is an open-source tool designed for writing dynamic documents incorporating code chunks for data analysis, visualization, and other computational tasks. This blog post shows you how to install and use Quarto with RStudio on a RONIN Machine.

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RONIN Release: Wednesday 27th March 2024

New Object Storage Bucket Migration and Management Screen for Admins! IPV4 pricing, improved support communication methods, improved RONIN audit logging, bucket creation dates and more Windows launch script options!

software-collection

Accessing your RONIN object storage with Rclone

Rclone is a command-line program that allows you to copy, sync, and move files between your local system to various cloud storage services. This blog post will teach you how to install and configure Rclone to manage files in your object storage bucket.

jupyter

Enhancing AI Research: Seamlessly Connecting RONIN's Jupyter Notebook to Google Colab

Google Colab is a free hosted Jupyter Notebook service. This blog post will walk you through all the steps you need to connect Google Colab to your RONIN machine so that you can receive all the benefits of the Google Colab platform, without being restricted by computational power.

mlflow

Creating an MLFlow server in RONIN

MLFlow is an open source platform for managing machine learning (ML) workflows. This blog post teaches you how to set up a MLFlow server in RONIN.

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RONIN Release: Tuesday 12th December 2023

New machine layout for managing many single machines, SSD upgrades, and some minor bug fixes.

s3

Mounting your object storage bucket as a local filesystem with Mountpoint

AWS has released an open source client called Mountpoint that allows you to easily mount your object storage bucket as a local filesystem. This blog post shows you the pros and cons of Mountpoint, and how to use it.

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RONIN Release: Tuesday 17th October 2023

RONIN LINK Rebuilt! Support for Ed25519 keys. Lots of other minor features and bug fixes.

admin-collection

How to configure a RONIN machine as a public webserver

If you have configured a RONIN machine as a webserver and would like to open it up to the public internet, there are a few manual steps that need to be performed in the AWS console via a RONIN Administrator. This blog will run you through those key steps.

beginner-collection

Managing versions in object storage

Enabling versioning on an object storage bucket is a great way to make sure you never lose important work, but how exactly do you get a file version back if you want to revert your changes? This blog post covers everything you need to know about version management!

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RONIN Release: Thursday 22nd June 2023

PHP and AWS SDK updated, minor improvements and bug fixes.

beginner-collection

How to recover archived files from Glacier

The process of retrieving archived files from Glacier is pretty quick and simple once you know how, and this blog post will teach you just that!

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RONIN Release: Thursday 11th May 2023

Minor release - Improved machine quota notifications, improved machine metadata security, bug fixes.

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RONIN Release: Friday 31st March 2023

Introducing more Object Storage Version Management Options, Welcome Emails, Project Resumed Email Alerts, and the Ability to Automatically update Windows and Amazon Linux AMIs!

admin-collection

Determining which DNS server to use for your RONIN Isolate

Since RONIN Isolate operates via internal IP addresses only, a custom DNS server will need to be set within your workspace in order for you to be able to connect to your RONIN Isolate machines. This blog post teaches you how.

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Creating Users a WorkSpace for RONIN Isolate

RONIN Isolate has been designed to only be able to be accessed via a secure enclave of machines called WorkSpaces. In this blog post we describe the process of creating WorkSpaces for RONIN Isolate users.

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RONIN Release: Tuesday 20th December 2022

Additional Object Storage Archiving Options! Improved filter when selecting machine types! Lots of helpful minor features, and some bug fixes to boot!

beginner-collection

Logging in to your RONIN Isolate AWS WorkSpace

RONIN Isolate has been designed to only be able to be accessed via a secure enclave of machines called WorkSpaces. In this blog post we describe the process of connecting to your WorkSpace for the first time.

s3

How to empty an Object Storage Bucket

This blog post will teach you how to easily empty all objects from an object storage bucket to get it ready for deletion.

postgresql

Creating a PostgreSQL Database in RONIN

We previously blogged about installing MySQL on a RONIN machine. But databases are different, and another open source database that is popular among researchers is PostgreSQL. This blog post teaches you how to install and connect to a PostgreSQL database with RONIN.

release-collection

RONIN Release: Tuesday 13th September 2022

RONIN LINK V2.3.0 - Upgraded RStudio, Custom DNS Settings, New Mount Drives Feature!

spack

Spack is Research Computing's Best Friend

Research and cloud computing are a perfect fit, but the reality of managing software on dynamic clusters in the cloud can be a challenge. Fortunately, nifty tools like Spack can help get you up and running with optimised versions of your required software in just minutes.

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RONIN Release: Friday 12th August 2022

Resize Drives in a Few Clicks! New Package Management and Storage Summary screens for Admins! Improved Dashboard with Better Storage Cost and Usage Data for Users! Ability to Manage Default OS Offerings, and So Much More!!