Building a Cloud Native Curriculum for Real-World Readiness

As Cloud Native technologies become the backbone of modern industry, it’s important to prepare computer science students for the challenges and expectations they’ll face in their careers. Traditional curricula often focus on small, theoretical projects and assignments, while the real world is more about working on large-scale projects, collaborating with diverse teams, and utilizing concepts such as DevOps, none of which students had prior contact with.

Marko was part of the team building a Cloud Native curriculum focused on DevOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and open source for a 13-week course. The team quickly ran into problems, such as designing assignments big enough to cover these concepts practically. They also discovered that students were not well-versed in Linux, Bash, and working with the CLI. But 13 weeks is a little time to teach all of that. Marko will share how they overcame these problems, and created a course that received very positive feedback from 300+ students.

Speakers: Marko Mudrinić, Senior Software Engineer at Kubermatic