01612nas a2200217   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260003300043653002000076653001800096653001400114653001600128653001500144653000900159100001800168700001900186700001800205700002300223245006800246520108000314       2019                            d  c2-4 OctoberaSofia, Bulgaria10acyber education10aCybersecurity10aEducation10acyber range10aserverless10afaas1 aYavor Papazov1 aGeorge Sharkov1 aGeorgi Koykov1 aChristina Todorova00aManaging Cyber Education Environments with Serverless Computing3 a<p>This paper presents the experience of the authors in their efforts to apply an innovative computation paradigm – “serverless” computing – into managing cyber education environments through the Course Manager platform, developed by the authors’ team. The serverless paradigm, also referred to as Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), helps the developers abstract or automate away almost all infrastructure and operation overhead, allowing for what is often touted as "infinite scaling" applications, which can be a good fit for the rapidly increasing demand for practical cyber environments.</p><p>The authors provide an in-depth overview of the architecture and frontend of a cyber education environment management framework, designed to work in a serverless environment, and analyse the lessons learnt from using that framework in providing cyber trainings to students and IT professionals for more than a year.</p><p>This paper is included in the program of <a href="https://digilience.org">DIGILIENCE 2019</a> and will be published in the post-conference volume.</p>