03-19, 16:30–16:55 (US/Eastern), Tsai Auditorium (CGIS S010)
Open OnDemand has evolved to offer powerful customization features, enabling institutions to tailor their instances like never before. This talk will explore how these features allow administrators and developers to create and deploy customizations easily, fostering a community-driven ecosystem of shared enhancements. Attendees will learn how to extend Open OnDemand using plugins and benefit from community contributions through practical examples, such as the metrics widget and the session card metrics developed by IQSS.
Whether you're managing an HPC environment or developing for Open OnDemand, you'll leave with practical knowledge on how to try, create, and share customizations that simplify administration and improve user experiences.
Customization has always been important for institutions using Open OnDemand, but recent enhancements have made implementation, deployment, and management more seamless than ever.
This talk will walk attendees through the evolution of Open OnDemand’s customization capabilities, highlighting the latest plugin features and the rendering of widget partials. It will then demonstrate how to develop and structure customizations as modular units that are easy to deploy and share, using practical examples like the metrics widget and the session card metrics developed by IQSS.
We’ll cover:
1. The Evolution of Customization in Open OnDemand – A brief look at how Open OnDemand’s customization options have grown over time, leading to the introduction of the latest plugin system.
2. Deploying Customizations – Step-by-step guidance on how to integrate and manage enhancements in the form of plugins within an Open OnDemand instance.
3. Creating Customizations – A hands-on walkthrough of how to develop customizations using the new plugins feature, including practical examples.
4. The Power of Sharing – How community-driven customization fosters innovation, allowing administrators and developers to try, create, and share enhancements that benefit the entire Open OnDemand ecosystem.
This talk is aimed at HPC administrators and developers who want to personalize their Open OnDemand instances. It will be informative and practical, offering attendees the know how to leverage these features in their own environments. By the end of the session, participants will understand how to develop and deploy customizations and take advantage of shared improvements from others.
Senior Software Engineer
I have spent my professional career mainly in the UK, working for companies like Accenture, The Financial Times and The Department for Work and Pensions.
Currently working with Harvard as part of the IQSS Research Computing team leading the development efforts in IQSS for the customizations and contributions to the Open OnDemand project.