Creating a Student-Friendly PaaS Platform: Experiences with Tsuru in Software Engineering Education

Teaching modern software engineering requires balancing authentic industry practices with accessibility for students. Cloud platforms like AWS and Azure are powerful but can be overly complex for educational contexts. To address this, we developed an internal Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) using the open-source Tsuru platform. This solution simplifies deployment, enabling students to focus on building and iterating on applications without the need for direct interaction with complex cloud infrastructure, and facilitates administration and access for instructors to support the learning experience.