Play with Kubernetes
Dev tools
online playground
SHOW HN2017
164points
45comments
#225of 2,242 in 2017
Top 11%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 9 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.46.
Performance: 0 for, 6 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Useful alternative to Katacoda, open source
From 2 comments
As several people have mentioned already - Ben Hall is doing great work. I'm happy to see this Kubernetes playground because it's an open-source alternative.
alexellisuk on HNCan you elaborate? It worked for me (as in was both functional and educational) - was it the function or the education that didn't work for you? I've also found Katacoda a good…
maffydub on HN
Objections
Site went down under traffic from HN
From 3 comments
If anyone wonders why it just shows a blank page, the error code is: ``` 503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity ``` TL;DR: We’ve slashdotted it.
kuschku on HNhttp://labs.play-with-k8s.com is not opening.
sriram_iyengar on HNSlightly ironic that a system which has scalability as one of its goals went down due to traffic. Although I guess few things are prepared for an onslaught of catching attention…
try_again on HN
reCAPTCHA is tedious
From 1 comment
Now that I was finally able to load the site I must say I'd have liked to have had some basic tutorials to help me get started. It might haven't been in the scope of this site…
tekkk on HN
Sign-up required for tutorials
From 2 comments
I can access the 'playground' exercise, but you have to sign up to the site to access the other tutorials.
alexellisuk on HNI can understand why you'd want to do this, but it would be great if it was optional.
alexellisuk on HN
Requests
Add basic tutorials
From 2 comments
Now that I was finally able to load the site I must say I'd have liked to have had some basic tutorials to help me get started. It might haven't been in the scope of this site…
tekkk on HNHi, thanks for the feedback. We're planning to add some basic tutorials soon like (http://training.play-with-docker.com). We'd need the help from the community though as it's…
marcosnils on HN
Optional sign-up or OpenID login
From 2 comments
I can understand why you'd want to do this, but it would be great if it was optional.
alexellisuk on HNThis is the companion site to play-with-docker.com - which also has the captcha. OpenID login sounds like a good idea.
alexellisuk on HN
Questions
How to connect kubectl from the terminal
From 2 comments
This is cool but I'm a bit unsure how to actually use this. Kubectl doesn't seem to be able to connect to the server from within the terminal. It just gets: `The connection to…
jdoliner on HNIt should work if you are on the master node
xetorthio on HN
Alternatives named
Katacoda
From 2 comments
https://www.katacoda.com/learn is a pretty great site, that also has a "playground" mode for Kubernetes available (as well as others)
elliottcarlson on HNTake a look at https://www.katacoda.com/courses/kubernetes/ and the official Kubernetes interactive bootcamp that Katacoda also powers at…
ben_hall on HN
kubeadm, Kubespray, kubernetes-the-hard-way
From 3 comments
Have heard good things about Kubespray: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/kubespray
jluxenberg on HNkubeadm makes installing Kubernetes on existing computers vastly easier than it used to be (which isn’t to say it is easy now, just easier).…
williamstein on HNfollow this guide: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
johnpython on HN