Policies
Acceptable use
Section titled “Acceptable use”Kestrel is a shared research computing platform. All tenants agree to the following when they receive access.
Permitted use
Section titled “Permitted use”- Research workloads tied to an Alliance Cloud RAP allocation. The PI can be at any CFI-eligible Canadian institution — UVic affiliation is not required.
- Educational use such as course assignments, workshops, and training exercises approved by a faculty sponsor.
- Development and testing of research software prior to production deployment.
Prohibited use
Section titled “Prohibited use”- Cryptocurrency mining or any proof-of-work computation.
- Non-research commercial workloads — production services that generate revenue without an approved agreement with RCS.
- Persistent public-facing production services aimed at general public traffic without prior written approval from RCS. (Exposing research web apps and APIs through your tenant Ingress — as the walkthroughs on this site do — is normal platform use.)
- Any activity that violates UVic’s Acceptable Use of Electronic Information Resources policy or applicable Canadian law.
Resource fair-use expectations
Section titled “Resource fair-use expectations”Kestrel resources are shared across many tenants. To keep the cluster healthy for everyone:
- Stay within the CPU, memory, and storage quotas assigned to your tenant.
- Do not request resources you are not actively using — release idle PVCs, scale down idle deployments.
- Use priority classes appropriately; do not escalate priority to jump the queue.
- Report suspected resource abuse or noisy-neighbour issues to RCS support.
Consequences of violation
Section titled “Consequences of violation”RCS may, at its discretion:
- Contact the tenant owner to discuss the issue.
- Throttle or suspend the offending workload.
- Suspend the tenant’s access pending review.
Repeat or severe violations may be referred to UVic’s Office of Research Services.