Open edX trial on the IBM Cloud provides a great way to start building learning portal where you retain full control with minimal effort on operation of the learning portal.

Operation of your portal is greatly simplified by:

1. utilizing Kubernetes service on the IBM Cloud to provide highly elastic distributed compute infrastructure that makes resources when required and ensures that your learning site stays up and available
2. using IBM open source distribution that extends Open edX with an easy to use portal interface with capabilities such as content syndication, Competition Management System, chatbot, blockchain academic credentials built right in.

You get a self managed instance of Open edX and retain full control over every aspect of your Open edX deployment.