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A collection of 35 posts

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Deploying Veyon as a Classroom Manager on RONIN

Deploy Veyon for cloud-based classrooms on RONIN with DCV. Learn how to configure teacher and student machines and scale your lab with RONIN packages.

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Launching GPU Instances on AWS: Understanding Capacity, Quotas, and Reservations

Launching GPU instances on AWS can fail due to Availability Zone constraints, vCPU quotas, or regional capacity limits. This guide explains what those errors mean and how IT teams can improve success with multi-AZ design, quota planning, and Capacity Reservations.

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Customising RONIN's Default Bucket Policy

The "ronin-bucket-policy" parameter allows RONIN Admins to view and edit the default s3 bucket policy that is applied to all new buckets created by RONIN. This blog post walks you through the defaults, the differences in Core vs Isolate environments and the required placeholders.

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Onboarding users into RONIN ISOLATE

Quickly onboard users into RONIN Isolate with our step-by-step guide. Learn how to set up user access in AWS WorkSpaces Applications, assign RONIN stacks, and walk end users through logging in to RONIN via their secure desktop environment.

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Configuring a predefined list of funding codes to use in RONIN

When creating projects in RONIN, you can specify two types of funding codes that are applied to all associated project resources. This blog post will teach you how to create and edit predefined lists for allowed billing codes and purchase order numbers in RONIN.

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RONIN Default IAM Policies

This blog post outlines the default IAM policies RONIN leverages to access services within the AWS account.

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Custom AMI Updates for RONIN Packages via AWS Systems Manager

Want to be able to automate updating AMIs in the RONIN Package Catalogue via the AWS console? Well, this blog post will teach you how!

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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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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.

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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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Viewing RONIN Log Activity With Splunk: Part 1

A universal requirement for compliance is that logs be kept to track certain activities and data access. In this blog post we describe how to use Splunk to examine audit trail logs from RONIN Core.

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Preparing a Customized Windows Environment for Sharing

Want to share your custom Windows environment with other users but require them to set their own Administrator password? Find out how in this blog post!

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Automating RONIN Cost Reports with AWS Cost Explorer

What happens when RONIN users and administrators want to keep a closer watchful eye on where the money is going?

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Automating Little Things With Lambda

When you need to automate a little thing in RONIN, look towards AWS Lambda.

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Virtual Classrooms in RONIN

The creation of virtual classrooms in the cloud with RONIN means students are no longer confined to the physical hardware available at their institution, and professors have a simple way of ensuring all students have access to the same environment to complete their coursework.

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Project Pause and Auto Pause

RONIN does a lot of things to help you prevent overspend, such as Smart Schedule and Budget Management, but we at RONIN have been working hard to help you have complete peace of mind that you won’t experience financial disaster. Introducing Project Auto Pause!

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Supporting Researchers on the Cloud

It's obvious, isn't it? The purpose of research computing support is to enable researchers to conduct more research faster, to make new discoveries, to publish more influential papers, obtain more grant funding, and train the next generation. But in practice...

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Connecting Your On-Premises Network to Your RONIN AWS Cloud Account

There are a number of reasons why you might want to connect to AWS from your on-premises network infrastructure, and a number of ways to do so. This blog post is a helpful starting point to determine which solution might work best for you.

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Prepare AWS SSO to Connect to RONIN

This article will guide you through the steps to create RONIN as an application in AWS SSO to prepare to have it connected to your RONIN login. We will assume you have AWS SSO set up on an AWS account already and a RONIN deployed. In the AWS console go

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Closing a Project in RONIN

Here's a quick step by step guide to ensure there are no resources left in your RONIN project and close down a project once it is no longer needed.

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AWS Best Practices when using RONIN

We recommend all of our customers use the AWS Well Architected Tool to ensure when using RONIN that they adhere to the AWS Well-Architected Five Pillars Framework.

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Instructions for Your Detailed Project Billing Report

To make life easy, we’ve created a simple step by step guide to help you generate one of the most useful reports in your AWS console - your own RONIN Project ID (RPID) report.

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Cloud Credit Billing

This solution enables our customers to pre-purchase cloud and manage it via RONIN. This aims to simplify the procurement process of cloud consumption and align with the planning and existing procurement model of your organisation.

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Initial Import for RONIN Secure Stream

As part of the initial set up of RONIN Secure Stream, we can import your existing licence servers. We just need to know the IP address and port that the licence server is listening on.