 This is an introductory text to a collection of selected papers from the 8th Workshop on Cloud Technologies and Education, CTE 2020, which was held in Krivyrih, Ukraine, on the December 18, 2020. It consists of short introduction, papers review, and some observations about the event and its future. This article was authored by Sergey Osamerikov, Maria P. Shishkina, Andrew M. Straik and others.