DataSHIELD Deployment Workshop — 2025

Hands-on materials for deploying a DataSHIELD node, delivered at the DataSHIELD Conference 2025.

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DataSHIELD lets researchers analyse data across institutions without the raw records ever leaving the institution that holds them. This workshop covers the infrastructure side: getting a node up locally, then getting it safely onto the network.

What it covers

1. Local deployment — standing up Opal and Armadillo on your own machine, and how the two differ
2. Going live — what changes when the node leaves localhost
3. Profiles — adding analysis profiles to a running node
4. Rock servers — creating and wiring up the R execution backend

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Related

• datashield-workshop-2024 — the previous edition
• google-cloud-datashield-example — a guided worked example against a test deployment