How-to guides

Detailed steps for key operations and common tasks when working with Charmed HPC.

Environment initialization

• Initialize cloud environment

Deployment

• Deploy Slurm

• Deploy Lustre

• Deploy a shared filesystem

• Deploy an identity provider

Integration with other tools

Connect your cluster to observability platforms and workload tools.

• Integrate with Canonical Observability Stack

• Integrate with InfluxDB

• Integrate with a mail server for job notifications

• Integrate with Apptainer

Cluster management

• Manage compute nodes and partitions

• Rotate authentication keys

• Migrate Slurm controller to high availability

Running workloads

• Use Apptainer

Resource clean up

Remove previously deployed components and free cloud resources when they are no longer needed.

• Clean up Slurm

• Clean up cloud resources