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Chris Downing

Author: Chris Downing

Chris Downing is a Senior Consultant in the HPC Global Specialty Practice of AWS Professional Services.

Managing AWS ParallelCluster SSH users with AWS OpsWorks

In a previous article, we highlighted the potential for deploying a local LDAP server to provide a mechanism for managing a multi-user AWS ParallelCluster deployment with low administrator overhead. If we want our cluster users to access or manage other AWS resources, it’s preferable to control their access via AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). […]

Managing AWS ParallelCluster SSH users with OpenLDAP

A common request from AWS ParallelCluster users is to have the ability to deploy multiple POSIX user accounts. The wiki on the project GitHub page documents a simple mechanism for achieving this, and a previous blog post, “AWS ParallelCluster with AWS Directory Services Authentication,” documents how to integrate AWS ParallelCluster with AWS Directory Service. However, […]