andresjz / container-slides

Slides for my container talks

DIY Container Talk

The html files in the root directory define a presentation. It consists of one or more topics stored in the subdirectories.

Building slide decks

Generate all files to view existing slide decks:

make

Prepare a demo by installing tools and creating VMs:

bash demo_prepare.sh my.html

The demo environment should be prepared on the machine which will later be used to execute the automated demos.

Running demos

Execute an automated demo:

bash demo_run.sh <myslides.html>

You will receive a new shell for every included topic in the slide deck. The code contained in prepare.sh and cleanup.sh will be execute before entering and after leaving the shell, respectively. The shell will have a few functions to manage demos:

# List demos for the current topics
demos

# Execute a demo
demo blah

The demo for a topic ends when closing the shell using exit or ^D.

After the automated demos have finished, run the following command to cleanup including VM removal:

bash demo_cleanup.sh <myslides.html>

Note that slide decks have only been tested if they are referenced in a release of this repository.

Topics

Each of those topics is made up of the following files:

1. Slides
   1. (either) *.template.md
   2. (or) *.md
2. Demos: *.demo
3. Demo environment
   1. prep.sh defines commands executed when preparing the demo environment using demo_prepare.sh
   2. user-data.txt causes demo_prepare.sh to create a VM based on the contained commands
4. Automated demos
   1. prepare.sh is executed before the shell for the topic if launched
   2. cleanup.sh is executed after the shell for the topic has ended

There are many examples in the subdirectories.

Demos

Demos are defined in *.demo files. The automated demos expect these files to have the following format:

# Title of the demo displayed by the demo function

# Comment of demo step 1 displayed when executing the demo
echo first command
echo demo step includes all commands ...
echo ...up to the next comment

# Comment of demo step 2 displayed when executing the demo
echo more commands
echo even more commands

The steps of a demo can be included into the slides. If the slides of a topic are defined in a *.template.md file, make will substitute a demo step when using the following syntax where demo_name is the name of the *.demo file:

<!-- include: demo_name-0.command -->

The *.command files are generated by make.

Virtual machines

Some demos should be run on fresh VMs. The current implementation uses Hetzner Cloud and expects a configured workspace for hcloud.

Sharing slides

The slides can be copied to a location of your choice. It will include all files required for viewing the slides.

bash copy_clides.sh <myslides.html> /target/location/