Docs: Find a replacement for Katacoda.com for tutorials

[matej-g]

Katacoda.com is officially being shutdown by 15th June: https://www.oreilly.com/online-learning/leveraging-katacoda-technology.html

We should find an alternative provider to which we can move or (temporarily) remove Katacoda tutorials from docs.

[squat]

:( a one month warning is really short notice. Let's try to find something else for sure

[matej-g]

As a project we got an (unwritten?) offer from https://instruqt.com/ which is kind of a similar platform, although this would be free only for 1000 user hours, so it would not be a permanent solution. Either way, it's one of a readily available alternatives, even if just to bridge us to a permanent solution.

[matej-g]

Another alternative @saswatamcode found: https://killercoda.com, which seem to have a more generous free tier.

[saswatamcode]

Seems like this is causing a lot of trouble: https://github.com/kubernetes/website/issues/33936

[matej-g]

Yep, I'd say let's agree on an alternative (Killercoda is the winner for me right now) and I'll take care of porting to the new provider.

[bwplotka]

Referenced our issues publicly https://twitter.com/bwplotka/status/1531291197649694732

[ebauman]

Hey folks, I'm the lead dev for HobbyFarm (https://github.com/hobbyfarm/hobbyfarm), a browser-based learning tool created to address this need. I'd love to toss our hat into the ring as a solution you could look at using!

[wuestkamp]

Hello! I'm the creator of killercoda.com. Happy to help with any issues|questions for migration. Feel free to reach me via Email or Slack.

[matej-g]

Hey folks, Just to update on this (it has not been forgotten), I've been trying to migrate our scenarios to Killercoda, unfortunately I've been facing some issues with crashing environments, so I was not able to migrate / test the scenarios on Killercoda yet. I'll keep this issue updated, for now I'm planning to remove links to Katacoda.

[wuestkamp]

hey @matej-g, just reach out to us on https://killercoda.com/support and we check your crashing environments. We also provide larger environments for open source projects. Would be cool to get Thanos on Killercoda :)

[matej-g]

Thanks @wuestkamp for the tip, I'll take a look at support :+1:

[squat]

Big thanks to @Akshit42-hue for your work on porting the Thanos tutorials to work on Killercoda! I made a new GH repo today that hosts the tutorials: https://github.com/thanos-io/tutorials Tomorrow I'll try to finish setting up our Killercoda account

[Akshit42-hue]

I am glad that I have contributed to Thanos tutorials to work on Killercoda. Shoutout to @wuestkamp and @matej-g for helping me out 🙂

[wuestkamp]

Would you be ok if we feature https://killercoda.com/thanos-tutorials on the Killercoda main page?

[Akshit42-hue]

Would you be ok if we feature https://killercoda.com/thanos-tutorials on the Killercoda main page?

+1 From my side WDYT // @matej-g @squat @bwplotka

[matej-g]

@squat did you manage to finalize the creation of the account etc.? That account link https://killercoda.com/thanos-tutorials actually leads to the account I was testing with, so it does not include the latest or 'official' scenario versions (since it points to my fork).

But happy to hand it over to @squat so we can keep the nice URL.

[matej-g]

It took a bit but we're finally there, thanks for all the assistance @wuestkamp!

The tutorials are now live under https://killercoda.com/thanos (if you'd still like to feature them on the main page, we're all for it :heart:).

[wuestkamp]

We linked Thanos on the Killercoda main page! Nice work everyone :)