Magic Sandbox
Learning and science
interactive kubernetes training
SHOW HN2019
180points
39comments
#226of 2,195 in 2019
Top 11%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
7 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Design: 3 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean UI and clear lesson explanations
From 3 comments
Pretty good platform for learning k8s. Nice UI, clear explanations. Of course my "inner QA engineer" came out and I had a few observations: * On the intro page about typing…
rfagen on HNThis is so good looking, cute UI, smooth flow. Clear explanations at lessons and convenient coding. I think that's perfect place to learn K8S, even for complete beginners.
Tangooch on HNGreat platfom. If you want to learn/understand kubernetes, this is the right place to do it.
rcarrascosps on HN
Good first-time experience for learning Kubernetes
From 2 comments
Wow this is great! I've been meaning to play around with k8s and this looks to be a good first time experience with the subject. I had a difficult time trying to figure out how…
alumowa on HNNo worries! Okay, honestly this is great. The content, flow, and ramp-up in complexity is wonderful. Please, please, please add a way to resume your learning session without…
alumowa on HN
Content written by Nigel Poulton
From 2 comments
We think katacoda is great! I'd say our two major differences are the interactive visual layer representing the real time state of the system, as well as having much more…
mstipetic on HNCurrently we're having an early access fee for one year. As I said in another post, we have Nigel Poulton, the author of The Kubernetes book, developing the content, so we're…
mstipetic on HN
Objections
Browser compatibility issues, especially outside Chrome
From 2 comments
Am I being stupid or is the terminal window not responding to typing? edit: my bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21283632
Fernicia on HNLike really? You are optimizing your product for (google's spyware) chrome? You are part of the problem. "some issues in some browsers" - shouldn't fly in 2019, IE6 is gone!
rinchik on HN
Terminal and autocomplete usability bugs
From 1 comment
Pretty good platform for learning k8s. Nice UI, clear explanations. Of course my "inner QA engineer" came out and I had a few observations: * On the intro page about typing…
rfagen on HN
Cannot resume a lesson without restarting the module
From 2 comments
No worries! Okay, honestly this is great. The content, flow, and ramp-up in complexity is wonderful. Please, please, please add a way to resume your learning session without…
alumowa on HNWe have this on the roadmap, but it's not as trivial as it seems, since there's a real cluster behind and it's very opinionated
mstipetic on HN
Requests
Undo or rollback of cluster state
From 2 comments
Pretty good platform for learning k8s. Nice UI, clear explanations. Of course my "inner QA engineer" came out and I had a few observations: * On the intro page about typing…
rfagen on HNThank you for such a great feedback. Undo/redo - this is gonna be super-tricky to build, but we had similar ideas, mostly we were thinking about smth like redux'ish time…
banderror on HN
Accessibility improvements
From 1 comment
Are you planning to work on accessibility? It's pretty bad and much can be improved. I can help if needed, I'm my hn username at Google's mail service.
miki123211 on HN
Resume learning session
From 1 comment
No worries! Okay, honestly this is great. The content, flow, and ramp-up in complexity is wonderful. Please, please, please add a way to resume your learning session without…
alumowa on HN
Intro to the UI basics
From 1 comment
Wow this is great! I've been meaning to play around with k8s and this looks to be a good first time experience with the subject. I had a difficult time trying to figure out how…
alumowa on HN
Questions
Differences from Katacoda
From 1 comment
what are differences between msb and katacoda?
freeman1988 on HN
Whether the free tier covers the basics and how paid pricing works
From 2 comments
Hi, I registered before and used it. I am a solo developer, will I be able to use the training for free?
scriptstar on HNGlad to know. Thanks for your reply. It’s awesome. Really like it. When we cross the free tier, is it one time fee? Or month by month?
scriptstar on HN
Login with Google failing in Brave
From 1 comment
Yes, congrats on relaunch! I'm on Brave and get this message when trying to "login with google" - shields down and 3rd party cookies enabled. "This browser is not supported or…
jn78 on HN
Alternatives named
Katacoda
From 2 comments
what are differences between msb and katacoda?
freeman1988 on HNI did pop over and take a look at katacoda (which is also a pretty cool platform I didn't know about before, thanks for the tip!). Walking thru the first couple steps of their…
rfagen on HN
RedHat Labs
From 1 comment
Since I'm teaching Kubernetes I'll definitely take a deeper look into it. Recently I tried RedHat Labs, but unfortunately these resources were not lasting (only available for 2…
ComSubVie on HN