Revolutionizing Educational IT: A DevOps-Enabled Cloud Framework for Next-Gen Learning

Abstract

In the current scenario, the reliance on information and communication technology (ICT) in education has a number of limitations. Historically, the education sector of managing was extremely labor-intensive and manual, thus creating many a problem regarding the use of educational solutions. The institutes are trying to broaden their scope of functioning with limited infrastructure to meet the demands of the future since education is gaining significant importance.

Emerging technologies such as DevOps and cloud computing can play a prominent role in lessening such adversities and serve the educational sector well. While DevOps refers to different technologies used to automate multiple applications and services-using multiple tools-for continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous deployment, and continuous monitoring, cloud computing is the supply of computing and storage by network-accessible hot-shared resources that match demand. A wide range of commercial cloud systems is extremely compatible with the technologies of DevOps.

This strategy would, therefore, resolve all issues presently encountered by the provision of new educational opportunities and benefits related to cost savings, ease of execution, automated processes, reduced resource usage, etc. The advantages in terms of the benefits for education from the integration of cloud and DevOps solutions are unexcelled in education. This research paper aims to develop a workable automated framework that relieves the education of time-consuming tasks. It discusses the implementation details of the proposed framework using the open-source private cloud platform OpenStack and DevOps tools such as Jenkins and Ansible. The performance characteristics of OpenStack and the DevOPs tools used are also discussed in this paper.