Teaching DevOps and Cloud Computing using a Cognitive Apprenticeship and Story-Telling Approach

Abstract

DevOps is a new way of developing software that is challenging from a teaching perspective. In this paper, we outline these challenges and propose teaching methods that focus on skill acquisition and technical practices that focus on performant virtualization to overcome them. We describe central elements from our course Cloud Computing and Architecture that has been designed and executed upon these methods and practices and report our experiences and lessons learned.