5
Training days
6
ECMWF experts
5
Technical themes
Overview
📅 Date: November 02-06, 2026
📍 Location: National Technical University of Athens (Zographou Campus)
🕙 Sessions: 09.00 – 17.00 (breaks included)
Training delivered by: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Hosted by: National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), within the MeDiTwin project
Overview
From 2 to 6 November 2026, the MeDiTwin project hosted a five-day, hands-on training programme on Cloud Native Foundations, Containers, Kubernetes, GitOps & Monitoring, delivered by experts from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
Held at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), the training introduced participants to modern cloud-native technologies and their applications in scientific computing, Earth observation and machine learning workflows.
Through a combination of technical presentations, practical exercises and collaborative activities, participants explored the full lifecycle of cloud-native applications, from infrastructure provisioning and containerisation to automated deployment, monitoring and security.
The training contributed to MeDiTwin’s capacity-building objectives by strengthening technical skills in scalable, reproducible and efficient scientific computing.
Training Programme
🔹 Day 1 – Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud infrastructure, virtualisation, OpenStack, storage and cloud APIs.
🔹 Day 2 – Containers & Docker: Containerisation, Docker images, networking, persistent storage and containerised scientific workflows.
🔹 Day 3 – Kubernetes & Helm: Container orchestration, application deployment, scaling, networking and Helm charts.
🔹 Day 4 – Git, CI/CD & GitOps: Version control, automated pipelines, application releases and GitOps deployment workflows.
🔹 Day 5 – Monitoring, Security & Group Project: Prometheus, Grafana, service security and a hands-on group project integrating the technologies explored throughout the week.
Training Materials & Resources
Training presentations, practical exercises and supporting materials are available through the dedicated training platform.
ECMWF Training Team
The technical programme was developed and delivered by ECMWF experts:
Meet the trainers
Key expertise gained
✅Cloud Computing: Cloud infrastructure, virtualisation, storage, networking and cloud APIs.
✅Containerisation: Building and deploying reproducible scientific applications using Docker.
✅Kubernetes & Helm: Orchestrating, managing and scaling containerised workloads.
✅CI/CD & GitOps: Automating application deployment, version control and release workflows.
✅Monitoring & Security: Monitoring application performance and implementing secure cloud-native services.
Local Organisation & Coordination
Ilektra Karasante | NTUA – MeDiTwin
Photo Gallery
Highlights from the five-day training, including technical sessions, hands-on exercises, collaborative activities and group photographs.
