Share feedback with Educates project.

[GrahamDumpleton]

Could you perhaps share information about how you are using Educates workshop images and what changes you are making in your copy of the renderer code with the Educates developers via the #educates slack channel at https://kubernetes.slack.com. We are interested to hear about any issues you are having which has made you want to keep a modified version of the code, and are also open to new features if they are of general use.

As is, some changes you are making it isn't obvious why you are making them so not sure whether it is something we should be considering changing. For example, why you are changing selection and copy behaviour on parent element of clickable action blocks (f3176b6). BTW, not sure if related to why you have made the change, but you can hold shift key while clicking on a clickable action block and it will copy it rather than execute the associated action.

As to CSS changes you are making, for Kubernetes deployment we provide a distinct mechanism for theme overrides. We don't provide an equivalent I don't think for local docker deployment of a workshop, but if there is a need we can look at how it might be done.

Look forward to hear from you via the Slack channel. That or feel free to create issues on the Educates GitHub repo if have suggested changes or have found buggy behaviour.

cc @jorgemoralespou

[Sh3b0]

Hello!

Thanks for checking out my fork!

I was experimenting with Educates in the classroom, but we only wanted a small subset of the platform's features (a lightweight self-hosted web app that students can run locally without the K8s-related components).

The CSS-related changes were the result of some usability concerns from the students.

We've got an overall positive feedback about the idea of interactive labs, so now pivoted to a complete re-implementation of it with different features and use-cases in mind.

I've joined the slack community and would be happy to discuss it further there.

[GrahamDumpleton]

When you say "a lightweight self-hosted web app that students can run locally without the K8s-related components" did you find and try the educates docker workshop deploy way of deploying a local workshop to docker from an existing working definition using the educates CLI? This side steps the need to create your own docker compose file, with it constructing one on the fly for you based on the workshop definition. This is not really mentioned in any docs at this point but has been possible for a long time.

[Sh3b0]

Yes, I have used it for a while. It'd generate compose files like this one (which was quite difficult for me to understand at first).

Also struggled a bit to get the integrated IDE working as I was using a different (ubuntu-based) base image at that time. I was referring to these docs page then, but as you mentioned, some details were left out.

With other customizations and use cases in mind, I ended-up rewriting a minimal implementation from scratch (very typical for a young developer, I know 😄)

Trying to make it more modular right now with the possibility to run arbitrary apps in the dashboard to fit different workshop usecases, also provide a VM deployment option.