Design and Implementation of Virtual Laboratory Infrastructure for Indonesia Skill Competition using Cloud Computing

Indonesia Skill Competition, also known as "Lomba Kompetensi Siswa (LKS)", is a vocational student skill competition program for students in 10th-12th grade. Students competes in a variety of competition categories. In the 2020 to 2022 academic year, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Committee designed an innovative and novel IT Network System Administration using Cloud Computing rather than cancelling the National Competition. The purpose of this paper is to show how to designed, implemented Virtual Laboratory using Cloud implementation. Competitor from their respective regions is connected via the Internet with Virtual Private Network access to Computer and Server Infrastructure that has been prepared by the committee according to the needs of the Test Project. During the competition, the competitor made configurations or settings directly on all servers and computers in Cloud Computing. Thus, even though the competition is held from their respective provinces, they can still maintain honesty and fairness because the competitor completes their work on a centralized cloud infrastructure under the supervision of the central committee.