Yeah! Katacoda would be great if someone wants to create detailed walkthroughs etc. for it. Since it's all git-based it would also be much easier to keep up to date than videos.
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 16:54 Krasimir Georgiev <[email protected]> wrote: > I saw that Thanos uses https://www.katacoda.com/ and maybe that would be > a better options than videos which might be outdated quite fast. > > > On Mar 2 2020, at 5:31 pm, Julius Volz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not that I'm aware of. We have a couple of early talks on > https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/media/, but it's pretty dated. > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 4:26 PM Matthias Rampke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do we have a somewhat up-to-date curated list of Prometheus-related talks > / recordings that are already around? > > /MR > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 8:45 AM Julius Volz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I always wanted to create some YouTube videos covering certain topics, but > never did it yet because I have certain quality expectations, and it costs > a lot of (free and unpaid) time and energy to create good videos. Videos > have some upsides like being able to visualize and quickly demonstrate > things via screencasts, animations, etc., or just by more casual > explanation than in a documentation. > > But they also have a bunch of downsides, like: > > - It's almost impossible to keep them up to date unless you have a > professional video recording team re-recording things whenever something > changes. > - It's harder with videos to just skim a topic quickly and find just the > information you care about (for that, written documentation is usually > easier). > - They generally just take a large effort to do properly, and the joy and > use you get from them as a learner really depends a lot on the quality of > the instructor and the video production quality. > > I'd still love to explain certain topics via video at some point if I find > the time and energy, but it would probably never be able to be a > replacement for documentation, just explaining certain key concepts or > demoing how to set up Prometheus in various ways, etc. So more of a > complementary resource. > > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 10:25 PM apoorve kalot <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have some ideas which i want to work upon, under Prometheus, i don't > know if it would be of that level, but i need of opinion of your all. > > The idea is, *developing a series of official YouTube tutorials which > will be part of official Documentation* for working and playing with > Prometheus, like from basics of node exporter to writing custom exporter in > custom language, or working with 3rd party exporters, > > *Why it is necessary/ should be done* : In the community IRC, there are > times when people might ask a information, which might be redundant, or > might be useful to other user at later point of time, and these tutorials, > or videos about basic misconceptions, would help to clear all these related > problems > > *Example* : Some of the other open source communities have these playlist > as part of official documentation, which helps community as well, along > with people who want use/contribute to the product itself, like Kubernetes, > TensorFlow, etc. > > *Advantages of using it* : > * The Redundant discussion of basic usage of Prometheus and other related > tools. > * Would indirectly help in extending support to community itself, and thus > would also help in getting new members/contributors which might turn into > individual maintainers as well. > * Learning through videos is more efficient as compared to documentation, > or written stuff [ for this opinion not all might be in favor, but everyone > would agree about the fact that former is faster than latter one ]. For > serious bugs and problems, one can always refer and ask help back from > Prometheus community IRC. > > These videos, other than basic implementation, would also contain basic > practices which involves while using Prometheus and it's services. > > Note : i haven't have selected the specifics topics which should be > included in these videos, but i would be asking other > Developers/Maintainers of the Prometheus as well as regular users of > Prometheus. 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