Workshopper

Builds your workshops and enjoys it.

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Deployment

You can deploy wherever you want, but we test specifically for OpenShift

oc new-app wildfly~https://github.com/osevg/workshopper.git -e <YOUR CONFIGURATION>

Configuration using env variables

CONTENT_URL_PREFIX (optional)

Content repository where to look for modules. The system will look for

$CONTENT_URL_PREFIX/_config.yml for configuration
$CONTENT_URL_PREFIX/_modules.yml for module definition
$CONTENT_URL_PREFIX/{file name}.adoc for specific content files

If not specified, this variable is constructed from segments as described below.

GITHUB_REPOSITORY & GITHUB_REF (optional)

If the $CONTENT_URL_PREFIX variable is not defined, constructs the $CONTENT_URL_PREFIX variable for Github repository as

CONTENT_URL_PREFIX = https://raw.githubusercontent.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/$GITHUB_REF

If the two variables are not defined then are defaulted to osevg/workshopper-content and master pointing to the latest content provided by the authors.

WORKSHOPS_LIST_URL, WORKSHOPS_URLS (required)

The system needs definition what the workshop should look like. It can work with single or multiple workshops in single one deployment.

You need to choose from

$WORKSHOPS_LIST_URL for workshops (defines single URL for list file)

$WORKSHOPS_URLS for workshops (direct specification of workshop URLs using comma separated list)

In case niether of these variables is specified, the $WORKSHOPS_URLS defaults to

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/osevg/workshopper-workshops/master/default_workshop.yml

to render sample workshop with all modules.

DEFAULT_LAB (optional)

If the system has multiple workshops using the WORKSHOPS_LIST_URL or WORKSHOPS_URLS the system can automatically redirect to specific workshop specified using this variable.

Files and file formats

$WORKSHOPS_LIST_URL

$WORKSHOPS_LIST_URL points to yaml file that contains list of URLs contain workshop definition as described in $WORKSHOPS_URLS section.

$WORKSHOPS_URLS

Comma separated list of urls

WORKSHOPS_URLS = "<URL1>,<URL2>,<URL3>"

The urls point to yaml files describing specific workshop. Workshop pull together several (or all) content modules to build a "learning experience" for the end user.

The main sections are

id - id to use to identify workshop in multi-workshop deployments (SHA-256 of it's URL unless specified)
name - display name of the workshop
logo - logo to display on the workshop page
vars - defines variable values to use in modules
revision - activate this revision for all modules unless specified for the module
modules - configure modules in this workshop

for example

id: testing
name: Testing workshop
logo: test.png
vars:
  VARIABLE: value
revision: <revision name>
modules:
  <module configuration>

The module configuration has two sections

activate - list modules to include in the workshop (all modules are included unless specified)
revisions - set per-module revision

name: Testing workshop
logo: test.png
revision: revision1
modules:
  activate:
    - module2
  revisions:
    module1: revisionxy

Let's assume that the module definition has 2 modules (module1 and module2) with module2 having dependency on module1. This workshop activates module2 and as it has dependency on module1, both are going to be included in the workshop. module1 is going to have revisionxy while module2 will have revision1.

_config.yml

_config.yml contains basic configuration fo the system. Currently these is only one section allowed in this file called vars that defines most generic fallback values for variables used in the modules.

vars:
  VARIABLE_X: something

_modules.yml

_modules.yml defines modules available in the content repository. The file has one main modules section that contains the key-value pair, where the key is module id and value is module definition.

modules:
  module1:
    module_definition

The module definition contains metadata describing the module

name - display name of the module
requires - list of other module ids that are required to understand before starting this module
vars - defines variable values to use in the module
revisions - configures content revisions

modules:
  module1:
    name: Module 1
    vars:
      VARIABLE1: value1
  module2:
    name: Module 2
    vars:
      VARIABLE2: value2
    requires:
      - module1

Revisions allow choosing between different content versions either by changing variable values or by choosing completely different content.

modules:
  module1:
    name: Module 1
    vars:
      VARIABLE1: value1
  module2:
    name: Module 2
    vars:
      VARIABLE2: value2
    requires:
      - module1
    revisions:
      revision_name:
        vars:
          VARIABLE2: value22

If no revision is chosen, then the value of $VARIABLE2 is "value2", However when revisoin revision_name is active, variable $VARIABLE2 value is "value22".

Content files

The content file is located in the root of the content repository and follows the naming scheme module-id.adoc. When the content should be in a subdirectory, the module name reflects that by using the _ characted.

modules:
  module1:
    name: Module 1
  sub_module2:
    name: Module 2

This modules definition would have two asciidoc files

  ├── _config.yml
  ├── _modules.yml
  ├── module1.adoc
  └── sub
        └── module2.adoc

Module variable precedence

Variable for substitution in modules can be defined in these places

_config.yml
_modules.yml
$WORKSHOPS_LIST_URL / $WORKSHOPS_URLS
Environment variables

where the priority is

_config.yml < _modules.yml < $WORKSHOPS_LIST_URL / $WORKSHOPS_URLS < Environment variables

i.e. environment variables override all the other definitions.

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