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Blog posts, guides, videos and talks about Educates, in one list.
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Announcing Educates Hub
Educates Hub is open at hub.educates.dev: a catalog of workshops and extension packages to use on your own Educates installation, with more kinds of resources to come.
- Authoring workshops
- Hub
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Educates becomes an independent OSS project
Broadcom agreed to hand Educates to the community. The project now lives in its own GitHub organization, independent of any company, with educates.dev as its website.
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Hands-on learning in the age of AI: are developer workshops still relevant (external site)
Graham Dumpleton on why developers still take workshops when they can ask an AI, and how to design ones worth taking, drawing on building Educates and running workshops on it.
- Authoring workshops
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PyCon AU 2026
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Reviewing workshops with AI
Having the Claude browser extension review an Educates workshop as a real user would.
- Authoring workshops
- AI
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Deploying Educates yourself
Educates is open source, not a SaaS. Deploy it yourself, wherever you want.
- Installing and running
- Working locally
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Teaching an AI about Educates
Using an AI agent skill to generate interactive Educates workshops.
- Authoring workshops
- AI
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Maintaining a Fixed IP for Educates Local Clusters on macOS
Give your Mac a fixed IP on a virtual bridge interface that a LaunchDaemon keeps in place, so your local Educates cluster has the same address on every network.
- Working locally
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Clickable actions in workshops
From copy and paste to fully guided workshop experiences with clickable actions.
- Authoring workshops
Blog post
When AI content isn't slop
The backlash against AI slop is justified, but risks dismissing purposeful content along with the noise.
- AI
Video
Architecting a Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Training Platform with vCluster (external site)
A walk through the Educates architecture, its multi-tenant model and its vCluster integration, and the lessons learned scaling hands-on training environments.
- Installing and running
YouTube, vcluster
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Automating DNS Resolver Updates for Dynamic IP Addresses on macOS
A LaunchAgent on macOS that notices when your IP address changes and updates the Educates DNS resolver, so your local cluster stays reachable at its domain on any network.
- Working locally
Blog post
Announcing Educates Hub
Educates Hub is open at hub.educates.dev: a catalog of workshops and extension packages to use on your own Educates installation, with more kinds of resources to come.
- Authoring workshops
- Hub
Blog post
Terraform deployment quickstart
The Educates Terraform modules create a Kubernetes cluster on Amazon EKS or Google GKE and install Educates on it. This quick start deploys one on Google Cloud.
- Installing and running
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Managing educates versions with educatesenv
Install, switch between and remove versions of the educates CLI with educatesenv, a small tool in the spirit of tfenv and rbenv.
- Installing and running
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Verify Educates running on Google Cloud (external site)
Check an Educates install on Google Cloud, from the platform components to a training portal, a workshop and a workshop session.
- Installing and running
YouTube, EducatesTrainingPlatform
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Installing Educates on a cloud provider (Part 2 - Verification)
Check an Educates install on a cloud provider: verify the platform components, then deploy a training portal and a workshop and start a workshop session.
- Installing and running
Video
Install Educates on Google Cloud using the Command Line Interface (external site)
Install Educates on Google Cloud with the Educates CLI, from the DNS and cluster prerequisites to a running platform.
- Installing and running
YouTube, EducatesTrainingPlatform
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Installing Educates on a cloud provider (Part 1)
Install Educates on a cloud provider with the Educates CLI, using Google Cloud as the example: the DNS and cluster prerequisites, the configuration, and the install.
- Installing and running
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How the installer works (Part 1)
How the installer that came with Educates 3.0 works: part of the CLI, aware of the cluster's infrastructure provider, and compatible with Educates 2.x.
- Installing and running
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How to best work locally
Give your local Educates cluster a trusted certificate authority and a recognizable domain name, so your workshops are served over TLS at a name that does not change when your IP does.
- Authoring workshops
- Installing and running
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Your first workshop
Create a workshop skeleton with the Educates CLI, publish it to your local cluster's registry, and deploy it to a training portal.
- Authoring workshops
- Installing and running
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Getting started on KinD
One command, educates create-cluster, installs Educates on your machine in a KinD cluster, with Contour for ingress and Kyverno for policies.
- Installing and running
- Working locally
Blog post
Educates becomes an independent OSS project
Broadcom agreed to hand Educates to the community. The project now lives in its own GitHub organization, independent of any company, with educates.dev as its website.
- News
Talk
Online Hands-on Tech Docs, the Easy Way! (external site)
Put a live, hands-on environment next to your technical docs, in the browser, whatever machine the reader has, with Educates.
- Authoring workshops
Open Source Summit Europe 2024
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Entrena a vuestros equipos usando vuestra propia plataforma (external site)
In Spanish: Educates as the open source platform you run on your own Kubernetes for conference workshops, demos and training portals.
- Authoring workshops
- Installing and running
KCD Spain 2023
Guide · Part 1
Set up
Install Docker, kubectl and the Educates CLI, and create a local Educates cluster.
- Installing and running
- Working locally
Guide · Part 2
What you just installed
The pods, policies and resources a local Educates install gives you, and the commands to see them.
- Installing and running
- Working locally
Guide · Part 3
Write your first workshop
Create a workshop, prepare its Sessions with setup scripts, guide the work with clickable actions, and edit it live.
- Authoring workshops
