Syllabus

NOTE: Part of the documentation still refers to Academic Year 2019/2020. Expect "live" updates during the course for AY 2020/21.

Introduction

• Introduction to the course

• Introduction to computing virtualization, cloud computing; cloud toolkits, cloud computing models

Technologies

• Technologies for computing virtualization

• Lightweight virtualization

Platforms

• An Orchestrator for IaaS: OpenStack

• An Orchestrator for Lightweight Virtualization: Kubernetes

Additional topics

• Cloud automation

• Security and Privacy in cloud computing

Labs

• Youtube videos for computing labs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTAfidx4guQImT5beuAs4YAhIzuBBoEHk

• Virtualization basics: virtual machines and KVM

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• Ansible

• OpenStack (demo during lecture)

Seminars

Slides are available on the POLITO teaching portal.

• M. Caltabellotta, G. Martino, O. Morga (Blue Reply), Evolution of Cloud Services (Jan 14, 2020)

• P. Lepera, T. Petronio (Altran), How long will I be able to avoid the cloud? (Jan 17, 2020)