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As part of the curriculum, students learn different subjects and in order to showcase their learning, mini projects in the respective subjects every year and a major project in the final year of their study has to be developed. Students work on personal machines which have preset environments and a tools base to facilitate seamless running of the code and project demonstration. The problem here is when these projects are submitted by students, they are received in softcopy form and are stored along with a readme file. All the projects which are submitted have different runtime environments and specific conditions which need to be replicated for successful execution of the project. So whenever there is a need to refer to or demonstrate the projects in the future to various committees or junior students, setting up of environment and tools base must be done for several projects keeping in mind the various versions of softwares to be used and resolving conflicts arising due to dependencies issue. All of this simply multiplies the effort required by the teachers/evaluators and significantly decreases the efficiency of the overall process hence limiting the access of the project to just one terminal that has been setup. More often, projects are preserved in the form of CDs and/or physical files which are subject to wear and tear leading to an arduous process of recovery. Ours is a cloud-based web application supported by DevOps practices, which helps users in creating images for their project and storing them in a persistent state. Also, it will help users to emulate projects by running containers of their image. We have built a cloud based private network which acts as the backbone of our system. The projects are saved as Docker images i.e. the snapshot of their project along with the runtime environment. These projects can then be emulated in a container at any time and can be accessed from anywhere using all the benefits cloud computing offers.
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Ajani, Y., Mangalorkar, K., Nadar, Y., Mehra, M., Kalbande, D. (2021). College Project Preservation and Emulation Using Containerization Over Private Cloud. In: Kaiser, M.S., Xie, J., Rathore, V.S. (eds) Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies (ICTCS 2020). Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 190. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0882-7_46
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