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Container Camps

Take Reproducible Science to the Next Level

CyVerse's Basics and Advanced workshops on container technologies are game-changers, enabling you to easily share, scale, and reuse tools and workflows for all types of computational analyses. Learn to use and build customized containers to make your workflows more reproducible, collaborative, and streamlined. Join the fleet that's sailing towards the vast horizon of reproducible science!

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Container Basics

March 6-8, 2023 | Virtual

Pre-requisite: Basic command-line skills (Linux, Git, etc.)

Come with basic command-line skills, learn how to find and use existing containerized workflows, learn to use containers with your datasets, and gain a foundational skill and tool for doing more reproducible science.

Advanced Containers

TBA (expected Summer 2023) | Virtual

Pre-requisite: Container Basics or by permission from the trainers

Bring your data and learn to build customized containers to make your workflows more collaborative, streamlined and reproducible.

Which camp should you attend?

	Container Basics	Advanced Containers
What You'll Learn	What containers are and their role in reproducible science Find and deploy existing containers using CyVerse VICE (Visual Interactive Compute Environment) Create Docker containers using your own data and/or analyses for reproducible analysis	Create your own recipes for containers Set up continuous integration for data events Use HPC and HTC with OpenScienceGrid Use Singularity containers
Target Audience	Any researcher seeking to exploit container technology to make their computational analyses easier, more reproducible, and more accessible for Open Science Enjoys a collaborative, innovative environment No experience with container technology needed	Researchers wanting to create and maintain their own containers, as well as deepen their understanding of container builds with GPU acceleration, continuous integration, and Singularity Enjoys a collaborative, innovative environment Experience with container technology
Prerequisites	Able to use Linux command line, directory structures, shell commands Able to use and run analysis tools from the command line Able to log into and use remote systems Have basic programming experience (language of your choice)	All the pre-requisites for Container Basics, plus: Experience with Git/GitHub Experience with DockerHub Experience with High Performance Computing and/or High Throughput Computing with OpenScienceGrid
What's New	Creating, building and maintaining Docker images through GitHub	An introduction to Kubernetes and container orchestration with Kubernetes
Format	Virtual/Remote	Virtual/Remote

Schedule

Container Camps are modular, multi-day intensive training that provides an understanding of containers, how to find and deploy existing containers using CyVerse, and how to create Docker containers using your own data and/or analyses for reproducible analysis.

Module	Container Basics (view 2022 Basics schedule)
1	Introduction to Containers and Docke
2	Docker on CyVerse
3	Integrating Docker Containers into CyVerse
4	Hands-on Containerization

Module	Advanced Containers (view previous full Advanced schedule)
1	From the OS up: Docker Image Builds
2	Domain-specific Instruction
3	Integrating Docker Containers into CyVerse

Workshop Tuition

Tuition
Container Basics	$200 (includes a 1 year Regular subscription to CyVerse)

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BYOD/BYOA

Bring your own data and analyses! Container Campers are encouraged to bring their own data and analytical workflows for containerization.

Instructors

Tyson Swetnam

Science Informatician

Michele Cosi

Science Analyst

Jason Williams

Lead, CyVerse Education & Outreach

Carlos Lizarraga

Computation and Data Scientist Educator

What Container Campers are saying...

"I am already learning a lot on Day 1! I feel like this workshop is exactly what I needed in my career right now.”

"Great experience overall. Each instructor had a unique set of skills and experiences that they brought to the course, which was great."

"I wanted to learn how to create containers and run R analyses inside of containers. I learned how to do that and more."

“The highlight of Camp was the moment where I got something to build faster from an existing repository.”

“I really liked the BYOD aspect of this camp and how hands-on it was."

“The highlight of camp for me was being able to deploy containers on my personal computer on Day 1."

“The trainers are helpful answering questions and helping around. The group project is very useful to apply what I learned to real problems.”

“The highlight for me was working hands on with a group on a project and the desire for other participants to help each other."

“Container Camp was really well worth the time I spent there, thank you so much!”

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