The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to Professional and Technological Brazilian Education, necessitating a rapid shift towards digital transformation. In response, the Ministry of Education and the National Education and Research Network (RNP) launched the Conecta Networking Program. This initiative aims to centralize the Moodle platforms management for the Federal Network for Professional, Scientific and Technological Education, whose volume covers 41 colleges and government training portals, more than 2 million students and around 200 Moodle platforms. The project’s challenges were to deal with an installed platform cluster in multiple Moodle versions, database and PHP, integrations with legacy systems from different suppliers, security policies, hard-coded modifications inside the source code, besides being hosted in distinct architecture infrastructures (supported by “On Premises” and “Cloud” topologies), migrating to a standardized architecture supported by Kubernetes in a Moodle SaaS modeling.
The presentation seeks to discuss the challenges faced in conducting the project, presenting its main stages of implementation and the technical architecture of the infrastructure achieved.
- Enhance technological capacity and digital transformation.
- Ensure Relevant economic efficiency and standardised IT solutions across all institutions, optimising public spending.
- Automation of the platform creation, parameterisation and monitoring process.
- Creation of a unified dashboard with indicators for all 200 instances using observability tool.