A demo instance on Azure using the K8S recipes

AiiDAlab Ideas
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There are only two public deployment of AiiDAlab at the moment, one on Materials Cloud for MARVEL partners and one on DigitalOcean for EU-MarketPlace project which will soon terminated (end Sept).

We had a credential on Azure for the deployment of AiiDAlab, and we want to use it to have a Demo server that doesn’t have too many restrictions for new users to login. New users should be very easy to get a taste of how AiiDAlab (especially QeApp) works in minutes. Some consideration are list below:

Have a demo instance (where we delete everything after say 12 hours, and this is clearly written) on Azure using the K8S recipes

  • Check costs
  • Ensure there is a clear hard limit on costs
  • link AAI to something where there is no risk of people mining bitcoins (SwitchAAI?)
  • Have everything needed for a demo already there, no need for the user to go and install (use a custom image to reduce startup times?) See aiidalab/qe:edge image.