Crowdsourced hands-on lab for a web application on AWS

High Level Goals

• Hands-On: Provide a hands-on lab that allows people to apply their knowledge beyond certificate-based AWS courses
• Crowdsource: Encourage ideas and contributions from the community on how best to approach and implement aspects of an environment on AWS
• Broad: Explore the use of both long standing and new AWS products and features

Approach and Collaboration

• Each course is a set of labs that work towards a defined goal
• Each lab should define the environment state it expects and the resulting state
• The labs should continue to work together, so an update to one lab should not prevent a student from commencing the next lab in the course

Optionally

• A lab could have different styles that use different tools to achieve the same outcome. For example
  • using the console,
  • a cloudformation stack,
  • a terraform (or other tool) stack,
  • cli commands
• The labs could have different variants that take a different approach
  • Where the variants result in a vastly different incompatible state, the course may need to fork down different path or be a separate course
  • Forks should be minimised