Magic Sandbox

Learning and science

interactive kubernetes tutorials

SHOW HN2018

392points
89comments
#43of 2,155 in 2018
Top 2%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

LovedMost comments that take a side are positive

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 HN
    • 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
    • This is awesome, I been looking for something like this.
      lgregg on HN
  • Hug of death congratulations on traffic

    From 1 comment

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 HN
    • That'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

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