RONIN

[Team | TBC] [Tech Lead | TBC] [Service Owner | amc203] [Service Manager | jpk28] [Product Manager | TBC]

Simplified AWS resources management for research groups.

Service Description

Ronin is UIS' response to the need of flexible cloud infrastructure with simplified setup and management. It uses a straightforward web application (Ronin) which hides AWS' technical details from the end users.

Its basic operation consists in creating research projects containing a group of users and a budget, and allowing those users to consume (create, reshape, monitor, stop, destroy) cloud resources from a predefined catalogue in a self-service way.

The application provides instant visual feedback about the existing resources, their statuses and associated costs as well as forecasts and notifications according to budget thresholds. From a management perspective, it allows a detailed expenditure tracking including breakdowns by cost centre, project, cost type and source of funds.

Service Status

Ronin is currently live.

Contact

End-user support is provided through Ronin channels:

• blog
• support (user id cloud@uis.cam.ac.uk in 1password)
• slack

For escalations and incidents, please use cloudsupport@uis.cam.ac.uk

Environments

We currently have two instances of RONIN running at:

• https://trial.uniofcam.cloud
• https://research.uniofcam.cloud

The service is co-managed with RONIN (company) which is responsible for the upgrades and monitoring of the service.

Operational documentation

Please visit Operational Documentation internal wiki.

Service Management

The Team responsible for this service is TBC.

The Tech Lead for this service is TBC.

The Service Owner for this service is amc203.

The Service Manager for this service is jpk28.

The Product Manager for this service is TBC.

The following engineers have operational experience with this service and are able to respond to support requests or incidents:

• sdw37