Cloud & DevOps final year project ideas
Free cloud & devops final-year project ideas for CS and software engineering students, each scoped for a single semester with a suggested stack and deliverables.
Ideas and guidance, not finished projects
These are project ideas and scoping guidance, published free for students to use as a starting point. I do not build, write, or sell final-year projects, and I do not complete coursework for anyone. Take an idea, make it yours, and build it.
5 ideas
Self-Hosted CI Runner Autoscaler
A controller that starts and stops build runners based on the actual job queue, so jobs do not wait and idle machines are not paid for. A concrete scheduling and cost optimisation problem with an unambiguous evaluation.
Distributed Tracing for a Polyglot Microservice System
Instrument a system of services written in several languages so a single request can be followed end to end, then use the traces to find and fix real bottlenecks. The measured before and after is what makes this a project rather than a configuration exercise.
Chaos Engineering Toolkit for Teaching Distributed Systems
A tool that injects controlled failures into a running system, network delay, packet loss, process kills and clock skew, so students can see what actually happens when infrastructure misbehaves. Teaching distributed systems failure by causing it rather than describing it.
Deployment Pipeline with Progressive Rollout and Automatic Rollback
A deployment controller that releases a new version to a small share of traffic, watches error and latency metrics, and rolls back automatically when they degrade. Building the control loop yourself is the project, and it is a proper distributed systems exercise.
Kubernetes Resource Right-Sizing Advisor
A controller that observes real usage across a cluster and recommends resource requests and limits, quantifying both the waste from over-provisioning and the risk of under-provisioning. Most clusters run on numbers somebody guessed once.
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