Magic Sandbox
Learning and science
interactive kubernetes tutorials
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
6 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 0 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score +0.28.
Idea: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Excited about hands-on Kubernetes learning
From 3 comments
Super interested to see how this works once the hug has subsided. This is potentially fortuitous timing; my employer wants me to cover most of this material by end of quarter.
Arubis on HNWill it be possible to contribute lessons to your platform? I find conferences a terrible place to share knowledge on K8s, this makes it a lot easier and hands-on.
tjungblut on HNThis is awesome, I been looking for something like this.
lgregg on HN
Hug of death congratulations on traffic
From 1 comment
Hug of death! Congrats :)
Serow225 on HN
Objections
Kubernetes has a high barrier to entry and is overkill for most developers
From 2 comments
This is a really cool platform, but it kinda exposes the extremely high barrier of entry to getting running with k8s. It's a very powerful and useful platform, but it doesn't…
tootie on HNThat's because, for the vast majority of developers, there's no point in using k8s. It's really only necessary when you have a big app (or a few instances of a few big apps) that…
striking on HN
Pricing wording is unclear (yearly or one-time)
From 1 comment
> 1 year early bird access > Get 1 year unlimited access to MSB Premium including all lessons and weekly releases. > This is a non-recurring, one time payment. You probably need…
Drdrdrq on HN
Requests
Clarify pricing terms
From 1 comment
> 1 year early bird access > Get 1 year unlimited access to MSB Premium including all lessons and weekly releases. > This is a non-recurring, one time payment. You probably need…
Drdrdrq on HN
Lesson contribution support
From 1 comment
Will it be possible to contribute lessons to your platform? I find conferences a terrible place to share knowledge on K8s, this makes it a lot easier and hands-on.
tjungblut on HN
Questions
How is this different from Katacoda
From 1 comment
How is this different to www.katacoda.com?
mwj on HN
Is prior knowledge required
From 1 comment
Is this for someone who has no experience with any of this or is there prior knowledge required?
theyoungwolf on HN
Which infrastructure runs the sandboxes
From 1 comment
Can't find it on your site... where are you spinning up all these servers for the sandbox? GCP? Azure? AWS? Somewhere else?
Rafuino on HN
Alternatives named
Katacoda
From 1 comment
How is this different to www.katacoda.com?
mwj on HN
Heroku
From 1 comment
Question: Why not Heroku or any other hosted service like that? They seem to give you the right compromise for solo developers as well as mid size applications. If it was a…
XVincentX on HN