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Consider adding optional open-ended exercises to stories

Open ljfranklin opened this issue 7 years ago • 3 comments

We've gotten feedback that some of the stories were a bit hand-holdy. One possible fix would be to add more open-ended exercises/tasks to stories to encourage exploration.

ljfranklin avatar Oct 18 '18 22:10 ljfranklin

Some ideas:

  • Set up an additional network by adding another terraform template to the bbl state directory.
  • Stop certain instance groups and see how functionality changes.
  • What other ways are there to specify the system_domain?
  • What's the difference between --var-file and --vars-file?
  • Use bosh instances --ps to understand what's happening on the VMs.
  • Explore logs on an instance group. (Maybe a separate story?)
  • Trace a change from the manifest all the way to the rendered config template on the instance. (Maybe a separate story?)
  • Anything specific for TPMs?

dsabeti avatar Nov 01 '18 22:11 dsabeti

Sent an e-mail soliciting ideas

njbennett avatar Nov 14 '18 20:11 njbennett

Main feedback was that our thoughts so far are very BOSH focused

  • Blue/green deploy
  • Deploy a "real app" with a data service

At this point I think this issue could be broken up into three new issues:

  • Compile a list of "questions to prompt exploration" independent of existing stories
  • Write one (or more) exploration stories that flesh out one of the more complex exploration options (I'm thinking especially of "blue/green deploy", where we'd probably want to offer some guidelines for how to monitor uptime)
  • Review existing stories for opportunities to add exploration ideas. This could be pretty time-consuming, so it would be good to get some specifics about which stories would benefit the most from this

njbennett avatar Nov 15 '18 19:11 njbennett