Tutorial  on  Linux

Welcome and Orientation

Dear User, welcome to our Labs Environment. This is a quick orientation and gets you to a test, if your setup is ready to go. Please read this before attending a training event. We hope you have a lot of fun !

Your instructor/admin has provided you with a landing page

Step 1: Signup with Github

Only if you are a new user on this platform, you need to connect your Github. This is the way you can be identified on the platform.

Step 0: Press Signup

Now, connect with your usual Github user. No PII data other than your username will be stored.

If you do not have a Github account, you will have to open one. If you do not have a GitHub account, you will have to open one before signing up. Sometimes, it can also happen that a freshly created iximiuz Labs account is flagged as suspicious. If after the signup, you see an error mentioning "Bot protection: ...", make sure you joined the training (see below) and your request was approved by the instructor.

Step 1: Press Github, you can uncheck the newsletter

Step 1: Use your regular Github user, especially if you have Lifetime access

Step 2: Join the Training

To sign up to this training, your instructor first needs your github user ID to request joining the training.

Step 2: Press JOIN TRAINING

Depending on the configuration, you will either be admitted automatically or manually.

Optional: View the Program (if available)

Some trainings feature a program, others do not. If there is one, make sure to read any instructions you may find there.

Mandatory for first time users of iximiuz labs

Test the live component right now

To ensure a disappointment-free experience, please test the following challenge on the laptop, you will be using during the training.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO WAIT FOR TRAINING APPROVAL 💡

Starting the Lab will work as soon as your Github User is correctly registered.

Click on the START Button in this screen on the top right.

IMPORTANT: press START

After about 15 sec, the playground should be ready, now please type a few commands, like so

echo "Guten Morgen, Looking Good Today"

This is what it should look like:

If you can open a live linux, you can type regular commands and it responds to you, you re all set

Things that indicate, things are not working:

  • playground never getting ready
  • websockets being blocked (some corporate firewalls will do this)
  • you can not input any characters into the live linux

What if something doesnt work

For your specific instructor, please use the original contact method specified by them. Use this in all cases, before escalating further

Critical problems can be reported on DISCORD

Talk to Ivan on Discord via a custom invite "Get help"

Also, most other regular authors are on this Discord. Use this method if your user is blocked by bot-protection or you think, you have encountered a critical bug

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How to Author Tutorials on iximiuz Labs

Instead of providing a subpar online editing experience, iximiuz Labs offers a helper CLI tool called labctl, allowing you to use your favorite text editor (or a full-featured IDE) to write content from the comfort of your local machine.

Install labctl CLI

curl -sf https://labs.iximiuz.com/cli/install.sh | sh

This will download and install the latest version of the labctl CLI. You only need to do this once per workstation.

Authorize labctl

labctl auth login

This will open a browser window asking you to authorize labctl to access your account. You need to do it after a fresh install of labctl and repeat it whenever the auth session expires.

Pull tutorial content

labctl content pull tutorial welcome-69c19e90

This will create a local copy of the tutorial content in a directory named welcome-69c19e90. You only need to do this once per tutorial.

Stream your changes

labctl content push -fw tutorial welcome-69c19e90

Run this command in a separate terminal to continuously upload your changes to the server while editing the tutorial in your favorite text editor or IDE.

You can also use labctl to create, list, and delete your content. Learn more about the available commands: labctl content --help