Ian Foster and I have just completed a final draft of a book that is designed to introduce the working scientist, engineer or student to cloud computing.  It surveys the technology that underpins the cloud, new approaches to technical problems enabled by the cloud, and the concepts required to integrate cloud services into scientific work.  Many of the blog posts that have appeared here have been reworked and, we hope, greatly improved and integrated into the text.  In addition the book contains introductions to the Globus data management and services infrastructure that has become widely used by the research community.

We have a website for the book https://Cloud4SciEng.org that contains draft chapters,  jupyter notebooks that illustrate most of the concepts and a collection of lecture slides for the tutorial at the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering based on the material in the Book.  This collection will grow over time.  The book website will also contain updates to the book material as the current cloud technology evolves.

The Table of contents for  the book is below.   We look forward to your feedback.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Orienting in the cloud universe

Part I. Managing data in the cloud

2 Storage as a service
3 Using cloud storage services

Part II. Computing in the cloud

4 Computing as a service
5 Using and managing virtual machines
6 Using and managing containers
7 Scaling deployments

Part III. The cloud as platform

8 Data analytics in the cloud
9 Streaming data to the cloud
10 Machine learning in the cloud
11 The Globus research data management platform

Part IV. Building your own cloud

12 Building your own cloud with Eucalyptus (with Rich Wolski)
13 Building your own cloud with OpenStack (with Stig Telfer)
14 Building your own SaaS

Part V. Security and other topics

15 Security and privacy
16 History, critiques, futures
18 Afterword: A discovery cloud?