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Rucio tutorial: data management with roles

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A hands-on introduction to Rucio, the scientific data management system, from the command line. It is for first-time users from any discipline. No physics knowledge is necessary.

Duration: 90 minutes.

Keywords: cli, data, rucio, scientific data management system

Competency level: • Beginner

Target audience: researchers

Resource type: Tutorial

Status: Active

Prerequisites:

  • You have an account on the IAM of the CERN EOSC Node, and the organisers have added you to the tutorial group. Your Rucio account is your IAM username.
  • You can open SWAN (JupyterLab).

Learning objectives:

  • The Rucio data model: accounts, scopes, files, datasets, containers, storage elements (RSEs) and rules.
  • How to find data, read its metadata, and download it.
  • How to organise data in your own datasets and keep copies of it with rules.
  • How role-based access control (RBAC) decides which data you can see, and for how long.

Date created: 2020-10-01

Authors: Giovanni Guerrieri

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