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Matt Bookman

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Latest activity by Matt Bookman
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    Matt Bookman commented, November 30, 2020 23:22

    1. Community
    2. Feature & Documentation Requests
    3. Preserve my persistent disk across notebook VM/Cluster recreation

    This feature request was implemented and rolled out back in September: Release notes Blog post Ran a test of this: 1- Create new Cloud Environment with 4 CPUs and 15 GB of memory, 50 GB boot disk...

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    • November 30, 2020 23:22
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    Matt Bookman created a post, November 25, 2020 01:07

    Provide user feedback when sharing with non-existing Terra account

    1. Community
    2. Feature & Documentation Requests

    In Support adding users to groups even if they are not registered in Terra (and send an invite) I had requested the ability to add users to groups before they have registered in Terra, which can ...

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    • November 25, 2020 01:07
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    Matt Bookman commented, November 24, 2020 22:54

    1. Documentation
    2. Account setup & admin (including security)
    3. Pet service accounts and proxy groups

    I'd like to suggest a related "best practice" for Terra users. The Proxy Group identifier is not very human-friendly. If I am looking at a list of grants on a GCS bucket, seeing that there's a gran...

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    • November 24, 2020 22:55
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    Matt Bookman created a post, November 19, 2020 22:56

    How to sign up for the Terra Newsletter?

    1. Community
    2. General Discussion

    Every month I get this great Terra Newsletter emailed to me. It recently came to my attention that other Terra users who I collaborate with do not receive the newsletter. How can they sign up to re...

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    • November 19, 2020 22:56
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    Matt Bookman commented, November 11, 2020 23:02

    1. Community
    2. Feature & Documentation Requests
    3. Use terminology "Notebook runtime" instead of "Cluster", except when it is actually a cluster

    Note that the terminology, as of September 17, 2020, is "Cloud Environment": https://support.terra.bio/hc/en-us/articles/360049850711-September-17-2020

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    • November 11, 2020 23:02
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    Matt Bookman created a post, November 11, 2020 18:21

    FR: Make connection between CPU and memory more clear in Cloud Environment setup

    1. Community
    2. Feature & Documentation Requests

    Had a collaborator recently ask if they could use more than 26 GB of memory for a Cloud Environment. This question makes sense if you open the "Create custom environment" section and select the "Me...

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    • November 11, 2020 18:21
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    Matt Bookman commented, November 05, 2020 01:25

    1. Community
    2. Feature & Documentation Requests
    3. Ability to create/modify cloud environments from the Cloud Environments page

    +1 to this. Sometimes I just want a Terra runtime environment to then work at the command line of the Jupyter terminal.

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    • November 05, 2020 01:25
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    Matt Bookman commented, November 05, 2020 01:23

    1. Community
    2. Feature & Documentation Requests
    3. Multiple runtime environments per project

    Adrian's use case is the one that comes up the most in discussions I have had with Terra users. It would be really nice if I could create a sane environment for a workspace (typically via a docker ...

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    • November 05, 2020 01:23
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    Matt Bookman commented, October 15, 2020 20:46

    1. Community
    2. Feature & Documentation Requests
    3. Please add bigquery.jobs.list privileges to users granted access to a Billing Project

    It appears that we are going to get this "for free" in December. Google's "Cloud Proactive Comms" sent an email indicating: We are writing to let you know that starting December 14, 2020, we will b...

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    • October 15, 2020 20:47
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    Matt Bookman commented, March 13, 2020 18:12

    1. Community
    2. General Discussion
    3. Workspace Reference Data - "identifier part expected"

    I just ran into this in Terra with a new workspace and new workspace variables. I created a workspace variable "test-billing-project" and when I used it, the Terra UI showed the "!" warning along w...

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    • March 13, 2020 18:12
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