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Navigating the labs

Let’s review how to navigate this web site and the content provided.

Structure​

The content of this workshop is made up of:

  1. Individual lab exercises
  2. Supporting content that explains concepts related to the labs

The lab exercises are designed in a way that you can run any modules as a self-contained exercise. Lab exercises will be displayed in the sidebar to the left and are designated by the icon shown here:

Lab icon example

This module contains a single lab named Getting started which will be visible on the left side of your screen.

caution

You should start each lab from the page indicated by this badge. Starting in the middle of a lab will cause unpredictable behavior.

Depending on your browser the first time you copy/paste content in to the VSCode terminal you may be presented with a prompt that looks like this:

VSCode copy/paste

Terminal commands​

Most of the interaction you will do in this workshop will be done with terminal commands, which you can either manually type or copy/paste to the IDE terminal. You will see this terminal commands displayed like this:

~$echo "This is an example command"


Hover your mouse over echo "This is an example command" and click to copy that command to your clipboard.


You will also come across commands with sample output like this:


~$date
Fri Aug 30 12:25:58 MDT 2024


Using the 'click to copy' function will only copy the command and ignore the sample output.


Another pattern used in the content is presenting several commands in a single terminal:


~$echo "This is an example command"
This is an example command
~$date
Fri Aug 30 12:26:58 MDT 2024


In this case you can either copy each command individually or copy all of the commands using the clipboard icon in the top right of the terminal window. Give it a shot!


Resetting your EKS cluster​


In the event that you accidentally configure your cluster in a way that is not functioning you have been provided with a mechanism to reset your EKS cluster as best we can which can be run at any time. Simply run the command prepare-environment and wait until it completes. This may take several minutes depending on the state of your cluster when it is run.


Next Steps​


Now that you're familiar with the format of this workshop, head to the Getting started lab or skip ahead to any module in the workshop with the top navigation bar.