Motivation
- Despite the increasing reliance on cloud-based services, 90% of Africa’s content and services are hosted on remote servers of the cloud providers located thousands of kilometres from the continent.
- Operating a reliable cloud service in a local setting requires investigation and solutions to unique unresolved technical hurdles, including slow, intermittent and high-cost Internet, inconsistent electrical power supply, and a low skill set in operating and managing large-scale cloud centres.
- There are limited case studies to train students, professionals and organisations on cloud computing technologies. As a result, software applications are in most cases not designed to take full advantage of cloud computing infrastructure.
Project aims
- Provide a vendor-neutral cloud native platform as a service for companies, governments, developers and universities, particularly those based on the African continent.
- Leverage the existing cloud native technologies and tools to develop a set of open source tools that can be used to set up resilient on-premise or hosted cloud native services.
- Build local capacity for cloud native technologies as a way to develop and deploy software systems that take full advantage of the cloud infrastructure.
More information about the project is available at cranecloud.io (opens in a new tab).