Cloud in a Coffee Break:

Getting Started with SURF Research Cloud

An introductory session on SURF Research Cloud, covering its features, benefits, and how to get started with cloud computing for research projects.

October 2025

Özgün Balaban

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Özgün Balaban

This Coding Café session focused on how Docker helps researchers create reproducible environments for notebooks, scripts, and data workflows.

Topics covered:

  • Software dependency issues and “dependency hell”
  • What containers and container images are
  • Docker’s role in research reproducibility
  • Practical examples of Dockerfiles, volumes, and networking
  • Step-by-step commands to run and manage containers
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