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Current State

The platform runs on a Kubernetes cluster on Fontys EduCloud (CloudStack) and currently hosts two projects.

PRJ2 — Software Engineering Course

PRJ2 is a 2nd-year software engineering project course at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Venlo. Each semester, 15 student teams build full-stack applications (Java backend, Svelte frontend) and deploy them continuously via the platform.

Every team gets:

  • A code repository via GitHub Classroom, pre-configured with CI/CD workflows and deployment manifests
  • A namespace with their own backend and frontend deployments
  • A database (PostgreSQL) with isolated credentials
  • A public URL at {team}.prod.fontysvenlo.dev
  • A Grafana dashboard for monitoring and self-diagnosis, see Grafana Dashboards.

Students deploy from day one — no infrastructure knowledge required. This is what we call Tier 1: everything is pre-configured so students can focus on software engineering, not infrastructure. See the PRJ2 student guide for details.

SPoHF — Research Project

SPoHF (Smart Production of Healthy Food) is an INTERREG collaboration and applied research project on digital twins for agriculture. Its applications run on the platform in a separate tenant namespace with resource quotas, demonstrating that the platform supports workloads beyond the standard student setup — including applications with their own authentication layer via Keycloak.