PaperCut Overview and Updates

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We’ll discuss what the PaperCut service offers departments, the most common ways our units are using it now, and some of the billing options available. After the overview we’ll talk about some of the more unusual things happening with PaperCut, and new features available that we have not yet purchased but might be useful.

DevOps for the Shield Data Pipeline

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To respond to the quickly changing data needs of the campus during the pandemic, the Shield Team adopted a DevOps approach to our data pipeline applications. These are some of the serverless and CI/CD approaches we used.

Masters of Chaos: Config Management Panel (2E)

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A panel discussion about configuration management tools in use currently on campus, and possible trends for the future.

Campus cPanel Service for Web Professionals, IT Support Staff, and Admins

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The Campus cPanel Web Hosting Service is a new offering providing flexible web hosting to students, faculty, staff, and departments. You can install WordPress, Drupal, and an array of development options with a single click, and Softaculous-managed sites will be automatically updated. Campus IT Pros may choose to use cPanel themselves, may support unit customers […]

Web Hosting IT PowerPlant Updates

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Learn about all the new and upcoming things the Web Hosting Team has been working on. You’ll hear about updates to the Campus Wiki and Publish @ Illinois services, an upcoming cPanel service, and guidelines for the AWS and Azure web hosting offerings.

AWS CloudFront: Living on the Edge

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Move your website out of the datacenter and to the edge! Learn about how CloudFront brings your content closer to your clients, reduces load on your servers, and gives you access to exciting security technologies. This presentation covers what CloudFront is, how to configure it for a basic web application, and some of the more […]

Scalable WordPress in AWS

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A hands on workshop using terraform and AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a PHP website. Participants will learn the basics of Infrastructure as Code using terraform, using terraform to create an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment, and deploying a scalable WordPress site.

CITES PaperCut for Departments

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How CITES is running PaperCut to meet the needs of multiple departments on campus. Focuses will be on billing and departmental use cases.

IlliniSpaces: Students Discovering You

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There are many small and large locations on campus available for academic use that most students aren’t aware of. IlliniSpaces is a new application initially developed at the University of Washington that CITES is bringing to Illinois. We’d like to share some of the features and implementation details so that departments can come on board:_ […]