Practical teaching of distributed systems: A scalable environment for on-demand remote experimentation
A practical compound of education in computer science and electrical engineering, driven by increased availability and maturity of many emerging technologies, should be enriched by various laboratory resources in order to synchronize the paces between technology advancements and education. In particular, advancements in containerization as a virtualization technique pave the way towards allowing students to deploy their project applications with a lightweight resource footprint on top of the cloud. Being backed by a valuable feedback from 45 Bachelor students, in this paper we present the best practices on how virtualization can be leveraged to create a scalable environment for on-demand remote experimentation with distributed systems.