In an educational context, experimenting with a real cloud computing platform is very important to let students understand the core concepts, methodologies and technologies of cloud computing. However, API heterogeneity of cloud providers complicates the experimentation by forcing students to focus on the use of different APIs, and by hindering the jointly use of different platforms. In this paper, we present EasyCloud, a toolkit enabling the easy and effective use of different cloud platforms. In particular, we describe its features, architecture, scalability, and use in our cloud computing courses, as well as the pedagogical insights we learnt over the years.

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用于教授云计算的教育工具包

在教育背景下，体验真实的云计算平台对于让学生了解云计算的核心概念、方法和技术非常重要。然而，云提供商的 API 异构性迫使学生专注于不同 API 的使用，并阻碍了不同平台的联合使用，从而使实验变得复杂。在本文中，我们介绍了 EasyCloud，这是一个能够轻松有效地使用不同云平台的工具包。特别是，我们描述了它的特性、架构、可扩展性和在我们的云计算课程中的使用，以及我们多年来学到的教学见解。