Abstract—In the cloud generation, most application services have been moved from the desktop to the cloud, but we still need a desktop environment to operate applications. Privacy, security, geography, and legacy issues such as the inability to migrate traditional applications, desktop maintenance remains an unavoidable topic for cloud-based information infrastructures. We proposed a virtual disk layering and mass deployment mechanism originate from native OS functions. With it, different pre-configured environment OS and application, disk layering as virtual appliances images can run on a hypervisor computer, multicast deploy from 1 to N machines. In this paper, we use the concept of Cloud-Native to elaborate the management and technology theme of the mechanism.

Index Terms—Virtual disk layering, mass deployment, cloud-native.

The authors are with Department of Computer Science and Information Science, National Chi Nane University, Puli, Taiwan (email: shlin@ncnu.edu.tw).

Cite: Ming-Hsun Yang, Shian-Hua Lin, "Cloud-Native Approach: Educational ICT Infrastructure," International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 79-84, 2017.