[dinkleberg]

This is cool. As someone who has authored Kubernetes educational content in a past role, I can definitely see the appeal of building something like this. iirc we first used Katacoda and then used some other similar platform and they were very useful since they spun up a fresh instance on the fly for each user with a specific setup.

Though it seems like right now this is probably better for conceptual/architectural education. The real fun is when you start learning to master kubectl.

[throw2ih020]

Yeah, in a past role this would have been awesome for diagrams to explain how the control plane works, illustrating the degradation and failure modes, or comparing different architectures/ways to deploy onto k8s/

[samwho]

Sadly Katacoda got paywalled (totally get why they did it, these things have costs). I think some other similar platforms disappeared because they ran out of people willing to fund it. It’s a shame.

I’m hoping this offers an alternative. It has the risk of becoming out of date with reality, but at least even in that case the core should ~always be relevant.

[leetrout]

katacoda got bought by o'reilly and went to shit from there. We tried to give them money in 2020 and they just sent us a templated email to "go self qualify with this form" and it was clear they only cared about enterprise sized customers. which is a real shame because it was a great platform.

[phrotoma]

Huh, looks like they mothballed it a year later.