Deployment using script is broken

[dgn]

I tried deploying the workshop myself, using the scripts in the .workshop/scripts directory, but ended up with a deployment that was broken in multiple ways:

• %username% apparently wasn't set; I just saw an empty string being inserted in the chapters, breaking all oc commands
• neither Service Mesh operator nor an SMCP was deployed

Maybe I was just holding this wrong? Is there even a way to deploy the full thing from just this repo?