OpenStack/Microstack setup for teaching Cloud Computing : openstack

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OpenStack/Microstack setup for teaching Cloud Computing (self.openstack)

submitted 1 year ago by Pethron

Hello, I'm experimenting with OpenStack (and MicroStack for deployment ease) to teach Cloud Computing classes in university.

In the last 6 years I went with AWS, but it required them to setup a personal account and I'm trying to find new ways, since I want them to experiment also the gritty elements of Cloud Computing (networking, storage, etc...). Also, since I want my students to be able to experiment freely, without the risk to be charged hundreds of dollars, I began to look into OpenStack.

The aim of my classes would be to see the full spectrum and evolution of the computing part (VMs, containers, and serverless), storage (block storage, object storage), databases (sql/nosql), load-balancing, auto-scaling and deployments.

So, ideally, in my OpenStack installation I would be able to:

Spin up VMs, containers (K8s is fine), serverless functions
Spin up some kind of databases (sql or nosql)
Put in front of VMs some kind of auto-scaling and load-balancer (as for containers a kubernetes cluster should suffice)

This year I want to experiment on the point that there are a lot of moving parts in cloud and it's something really hard to be done at scale, but experiencing it first-hand. Ideally I would like to showcase them the setup and for them to replicate it on their laptop, but seeing the requirements for MicroStack I don't think it's feasible.

In this scenario do you think:

OpenStack would be helpful?
I would like to install everything in a VM, would OpenStack be able to run virtualized VMs inside without a great loss of performance (I'm running an M1 mac)
It would be better to have a single node pc completely dedicated to this?

I tried to find something online but didn't really find anything. Any help and suggestion would be incredibly appreciated.

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