IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF MASTERING DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN A VIRTUAL COMPUTER LAB BASED ON THE USE OF CONTAINERIZATION AND CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

This article discusses issues surrounding the training of specialists in distributed information systems using innovative methods and technologies in a virtual computer lab environment with an integrated knowledge management system. The article clearly shows how complex knowledge, skills, and professional competencies should be taught to IT specialists. It provides a detailed exploration of the architecture of the Virtual Computer Lab (VCL) and describes the successful experience of using the VCL in classes taught by the Department of Systems Analysis and Control at the Dubna State University. The new practice with containers is different compared to hardware virtualization case and effectively complements it for a wide range of practical educational tasks dedicated to the mastering distributed information systems in a virtual computer lab. For the underlying operating system kernel can be used for all containers and improves payload on the north of a similar configuration. The article provides a detailed description of containerization technology to improve the efficiency of IT-training and features of container management in a distributed environment.

Keywords

• Virtual computer lab
• virtualization
• containerization
• container
• orchestration
• cloud computing
• web services
• IT training
• education
• innovations in education
• e-learning
• knowledge management
• big data
• virtual machine
• training
• hypervisor
• VMware
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• CoreOS
• clusters