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The Renku blog

Posts about new Renku features, platform design, reproducibility in data science, solutions to engineering challenges, and Renku use-cases.

Renku Hops Across Clouds

· 3 min read
Rok Roškar
Renku Team Lead

On August 21, our team executed a major maintenance on our production cluster running at renkulab.io - the entire platform was moved from the servers in Switch Engines to its new home in the Microsoft Azure Switzerland-North datacenter. This was a major operation that took many weeks to plan and in the end resulted in just a few hours of downtime - a huge congrats to our operations team on making everything work so smoothly!

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Renku 2.0 is Here!

· 4 min read
Laura Kinkead
Renku Product Manager

We're thrilled to announce that Renku 2.0 is now officially launched! We've rebuilt our platform from the ground up with a fresh approach to collaborative research computing, and we're excited to share what we've created.

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Sunsetting Renku Legacy: Your Guide to a Smooth Transition

· 7 min read
Laura Kinkead
Renku Product Manager
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You may have been redirected here after trying to create a Renku project or a Gitlab project on the Gitlab associated with Renku. We have disabled legacy project creation as part of sunsetting Renku Legacy. To find out more, read the following blog post.

With the official launch of Renku 2.0, we're ready to sunset Renku Legacy (Renku “1.0”). Here's what you need to know and what you need to do.

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New: Create custom session environments from code

· 2 min read
Laura Kinkead
Renku Product Manager

Need a specific set of packages in your Renku session? Now you can customize exactly what's installed in your session with Renku-built environments. Simply connect a code repository containing a file with your project dependencies (e.g. an environment.yml), and let Renku build your session environment (aka docker image) for you!

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