When I was an undergrad (not too long ago) there are two things I always want to teach people: server provisioning and security. By provisioning I want to show people how to run an openstack environment, use vagrant, use docker and deploy using ansible/chef/puppet/salt/fabric/shell script. Show them the complexity of deploying production and development environment.
Many schools today use very traditional VMs, mostly powered by VMWare / Virtualbox. But most of the system admins are too caught up helping other faulty and departments. Most of the time the IT is underfunded. Everyone wants new computer and a new lab; admins don't have time to sit in their office to learn new technology unless they are told to do so.
I encourage students to volunteer to help their system admins, encourage them to look at the possibility of running an environment similar to openstack. I am sure by this time the system admin's lab is full of old computers ready to be recycle or to be destroyed. Those machines can be used to bootup lightweight VMs (think dockers).
When I was an undergrad (not too long ago) there are two things I always want to teach people: server provisioning and security. By provisioning I want to show people how to run an openstack environment, use vagrant, use docker and deploy using ansible/chef/puppet/salt/fabric/shell script. Show them the complexity of deploying production and development environment.
Many schools today use very traditional VMs, mostly powered by VMWare / Virtualbox. But most of the system admins are too caught up helping other faulty and departments. Most of the time the IT is underfunded. Everyone wants new computer and a new lab; admins don't have time to sit in their office to learn new technology unless they are told to do so.
I encourage students to volunteer to help their system admins, encourage them to look at the possibility of running an environment similar to openstack. I am sure by this time the system admin's lab is full of old computers ready to be recycle or to be destroyed. Those machines can be used to bootup lightweight VMs (think dockers).