The paper On-Premise Kubernetes in Software Engineering Education: An Experience Report has been accepted at the ICSE-SEET track (Software Engineering Education and Training) and will be presented at ICSE’26 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Modern software engineering courses increasingly need Kubernetes experience, but many universities face strict data protection requirements, limited budgets, and constrained IT resources. This paper reports how we designed and operated a multi-node, on-premise Kubernetes setup tailored to these educational constraints using RKE2, Ansible, and Rancher.
In a two-semester case study with 22 students across three industry-collaboration projects, students with little prior Kubernetes experience were able to deploy and operate containerized applications after a brief introduction. The evaluation shows that the approach provides production-relevant learning opportunities while keeping administrative effort manageable, making on-premise Kubernetes a practical option for software engineering education.
- On-Premise Kubernetes in Software Engineering Education: An Experience Report by Matthias Linhuber, Jan Philip Bernius, and Stephan Krusche
Citation
On-Premise Kubernetes in Software Engineering Education: An Experience Report
Matthias Linhuber,
Jan Philip Bernius, and
Stephan Krusche.
48th International Conference on Software Engineering and Training: Software Engineering Education and Training Track
2026.
doi: 10.1145/3786580.3786953