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In the Kubernetes courses, it takes a bit too long before we reach the Kubernetes content. Furthermore, learning how to scale with Compose is not super helpful. These changes allow to switch between two course flows: - show how to scale with Compose, then transition to k8s/Swarm - do not show how to scale with Compose; jump to k8s/Swarm earlier In the latter case, we still benchmark the speed of rng and hasher, but we do it on Kuberntes (by running httping on the ClusterIP of these services). These changes will also allow to make the whole DaemonSet section optional, for shorter courses when we want to simply scale the rng service without telling the bogus explanation about entropy.
MarkMaker
General principles:
- each slides deck is described in a YAML manifest;
- the YAML manifest lists a number of Markdown files that compose the slides deck;
- a Python script "compiles" the YAML manifest into a HTML file;
- that HTML file can be displayed in your browser (you don't need to host it), or you can publish it (along with a few static assets) if you want.
Getting started
Look at the YAML file corresponding to the deck that you want to edit. The format should be self-explanatory.
I (Jérôme) am still in the process of fine-tuning that format. Once I settle for something, I will add better documentation.
Make changes in the YAML file, and/or in the referenced Markdown files. If you have never used Remark before:
- use
---to separate slides, - use
.foo[bla]if you wantblato have CSS classfoo, - define (or edit) CSS classes in workshop.css.
After making changes, run ./build.sh once; it will
compile each foo.yml file into foo.yml.html.
You can also run ./build.sh forever: it will monitor the current
directory and rebuild slides automatically when files are modified.
If you have problems running ./build.sh (because of
Python dependencies or whatever),
you can also run docker-compose up in this directory.
It will start the ./build.sh forever script in a container.
It will also start a web server exposing the slides
(but the slides should also work if you load them from your
local filesystem).
Publishing pipeline
Each time we push to master, a webhook pings
Netlify, which will pull
the repo, build the slides (by running build.sh once),
and publish them to http://container.training/.
Pull requests are automatically deployed to testing subdomains. I had no idea that I would ever say this about a static page hosting service, but it is seriously awesome. ⚡️💥
Extra bells and whistles
You can run ./slidechecker foo.yml.html to check for
missing images and show the number of slides in that deck.
It requires phantomjs to be installed. It takes some
time to run so it is not yet integrated with the publishing
pipeline.