access

Access for the Team to Install RONIN

RONIN is installed inside an AWS account. The customer is the owner of that account. We have a few different methods of creating accounts and sometimes we might need you to give us access. When this is required it is done via a role.

admin

Enabling Cost Allocation Tags for Your New RONIN Account

To make sure all the resources that RONIN orchestrates for you are tracked correctly against the billing of the AWS account, we need the root owner of the account to enable the cost allocation tags in the AWS account.

release-collection

RONIN Release: Tuesday 3rd December 2019

HPC Service Catalogue! EFA Enabled Machines! People Admin Screen! Parallel Cluster v2.4.1 and loads more..

docker

Create and Connect to a Docker Machine with RONIN

Watch this video to see how easy it is to create and connect to a Docker machine.

release-collection

RONIN Release: Monday 8th July 2019

Cluster Packaging, Spack Integration, Cyberduck Profiles!

release-collection

RONIN Release: Tuesday 14th May 2019

HPC Dashboard and Storage Resize Tools

release-collection

RONIN Release: Thursday 25th April 2019

RONIN LINK Integration and so Much More!

troubleshoot

Troubleshooting Connectivity

Connecting to machines can be tricky, especially from within secure, locked down environments. We've created this page to help you determine where the problem lies.

admin

Permissions

An overview on the permission structure for Cognito and RONIN.

ganglia

Ganglia on Auto Scale Clusters

All RONIN Clusters get a free open source tool called Ganglia to help monitor your hardware. This article shows you how

cluster

Create an Auto Scale Cluster

Auto Scale Clusters in RONIN are your very own High Performance Computers that automatically scale by CPU's as workloads get more intensive. They're really easy to fire up. No, really!

service

Setting up Your Organisation's Package Catalogue with RONIN

This article shows how RONIN can be used to provide an organisational service catalog, using our Packaging and Administration tools

rstudio

Creating and Connecting to RStudio with RONIN LINK

In this video, we will show you how to get started with RStudio in RONIN, from creating a new machine with RStudio installed, to accessing it through your web browser via RONIN LINK

object

Connect Your Linux Machine to Your Object Storage Bucket with AWS Command Line Interface

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be many nice 'clickety click' interfaces for moving files between Linux and Object Stores... But that's ok! Let's get started!

object

Connect Your Windows / Mac to Your Object Storage Bucket with Cyberduck

In our previous article, we explained Object Storage, versioning and archiving. Once you have created an object store and generated a key, you can then connect to it!

mfa

Creating New Users

Now you have your shiny new RONIN you need to fill it up with users.

authentication

Login to RONIN - Two-Factor Authentication Explained

RONIN just got a whole lot more secure! Introducing Two Factor Authentication!

connect

RONIN LINK - Our Handy Desktop App!

We aim to minimise the complexity of cloud, not just those with IT degrees. Introducing our new SSH desktop app for Ubuntu - RONIN LINK!

object

Working with Object Storage (AWS S3 and Glacier) in RONIN

We've been busy here at RONIN, simplifying Amazon's S3, versioning and Glacier, so that everyone can benefit from what the cloud has to offer, not just tech savvy nerds like us.

snapshot

Your Project Backups (Snapshots) Summary

Here at RONIN, we aim to simplify everything related to cloud computing. We decided the word backup is a simplified word for snapshot.

ssh

SSH Tunnelling with PuTTY

Now that you've connected to your machine with PuTTY, you may be wondering how you might create a secure SSH tunnel to your application. No, you can't just use regular ssh commands for some reason (who knew?!)

ssh

Accessing Your Server Application with SSH Port Forwarding

Port forwarding via SSH (SSH tunneling) creates a secure connection between a local computer and a remote machine through which services can be relayed. Port forwarding with SSH to the rescue!

webinar

An AWS Introduction to RONIN

We recently presented RONIN at an AWS webinar! Watch how the RONIN team transform your AWS account into a finely tuned self-service research platform

ssh

SSH Commands and Default Usernames

We thought it would be a good idea to give you some default SSH commands and usernames to make connecting easier. If you are having difficulty, check out our connecting to linux via SSH article for more information.

storage

Your Project Storage Summary

We think it's a good idea to have a summary of all your project's storage volumes accessible with quick actions and the ability to create blank storage volumes, and volumes from snapshots on one easy to access page. We also suggest you become familiar with how