Notes

Planning

Registrations

• TODO Kenneth
• open registrations soon... (by Dec 23)

Resources

• 4 VMs per tutorial attendee
  • 2-core VMs, couple of GBs RAM, 10GB disk space should be enough
• Azure (Davide/Laura) or AWS (Christian)?

Index page

• TODO Kenneth, by Dec 11

Practical information

• TODO Kenneth, by Jan 15
• Terraform scripts to create VMs (help from Terje, Christian?)

Intro

• TODO Kenneth, by Dec 11, ~2h of work?
• scope
  • what is CVMFS
  • terminology
  • pictures
• refer to CVMFS docs + Jakob's talk
• "end goal" of the tutorial/exercises

Getting started

• TODO Bob, review by Kenneth
• by Dec 23, ~10h of work?
• session for Tue Jan 26
• scope
  • Stratum-0, repo, client, (manual) config + demo
  • config repo (optional?)
  • provide scripts
• homework

Stratum-1 + proxies

• TODO Bob, review by Kenneth, help from Axel?
• by Jan 8, ~5h of work?
• session for Wed Jan 27
• notes
  • GeoIP, requires creating account + providing CVMFS_GEO_LICENSE_KEY
  • cron job for updates
  • separate VM for proxy
• homework

Publishing

• TODO Bob, review by Kenneth
• by Jan 8, ~3h of work?
• session for Thu Jan 28
• scope
  • transaction + publish
  • ingest tarballs
  • nested catalogs
  • tagging/snapshots (garbage collection)
  • rollback of transactions homework
  • tarball with 1M files
  • ingest without warnings

Best practices [help from Ryan, Jakob?]

• TODO Bob/Kenneth, help from Ryan/Jakob?
• by Jan 8th, ??h of work?
• session for Fri Jan 29
• scope:
  • network config (firewall, etc.)
  • required resources (cores, bandwidth, memory, # Stratum-1 servers)
  • keys

Advanced topics

• TODO Bob/Kenneth, help from Jakob?
• by Jan 15th, ~5h of work?
• scope
  • gateway/publisher (demo only)
  • container exploding

Testing

• dry run of tutorial by volunteers (who?)
• week of Jan 18-22