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Rethinking the Login Server: Can UNIX Classes Become Cloud Native?
- 18 July 2022
Since the dawn of the modern operating system, computer classes have used a shared login server to create a work environment for students. In the cloud era we’ve used virtual machines in place of physical servers (IaaS) to make our workloads more convenient to manage. But, our severs are still pets, they are precious to us, because they are stateful appliances running bespoke applications. Should anything go wrong with them it’s a crisis that requires our full attention.