You are required to demonstrate your solution using at least three different hosts. The USF microcloud is available for this purpose. If you have access to other hosts you may use those instead.

There are 50 virtual microcloud nodes with hostnames mcvm001.cs.usfca.edu - mcvm050.cs.usfca.edu. These hosts are behind the CS firewall, so you must first log in to stargate before logging in to an mcvm node.

The hosts are currently running java version 16.0.2. Maven and git are installed, and gradle is available in /usr/local/gradle.

Each student may use any of the 50 nodes, but you must restrict the ports used by your application to the range assigned as follows: