Test Sandbox Prestarts

[ryanj]

Goal: Determine what work is required to build prestart-compatible tracks. Collect feedback on prestart performance

We are currently testing sandbox prestarts for the following tracks:

• playground 4-12 4-12
• playground 4-11 4-11
• getting started (short) 4-11
• getting started 4-11
• Logging in to an OpenShift Cluster 4-11
• GitOps Pipelines 4-11
• GitOps Pipelines (short) 4-11
• Getting Started with Quarkus (short) 4-11
• Getting Started with Quarkus 4-11
• Quarkus for spring boot developers 4-11
• Apache Kafka with Reactive Messaging 4-11
• Getting Started with ArgoCD 4-11 LARGE
• developing-on-openshift-developing-with-odo 4-11 + fedora

Migration Next Steps (for each track):

1. All tracks that include customizations to track_scripts/setup-crc must have those lines moved to 01-step1/setup-crc (where "01-step1" is the name of the first challenge folder). Similarly, any customizations to "track_scripts/setup-container" must be relocated to "01-step1/setup-container" when using a sidecars with differentiated content. Check for differences wby running the following from within the track folder: diff track_scripts/setup-crc ../../examples/preset/track_scripts/setup-crc
2. For each track, add a preset definition to the track.yml file - See: https://github.com/openshift-instruqt/instruqt/pull/236/files#diff-dc5d411d2b8e17c72ed214877c8eafd0319380bb57d620f2fefb7fdf90c33cc2R33
3. For each track, remove config.yml and the track_scripts folder: git rm -rf config.yml track_scripts

In the Repo:

1. Update example tracks
2. Update README instructions
3. Prioritize conversion for top tracks by usage: https://play.instruqt.com/openshift/statistics
4. Prioritize conversion for tracks used at events ✅ : Optimize tracks used at events #238
5. Prioritize conversion for tracks listed on RH.com ✅ : Optimize tracks linked from redhat.com #237

Tracks that require minimal effort to add to a scaling group. Check marks indicate prestart is enabled for these tracks:

• Application Messaging with Openshift
• Red Hat Data Grid development
• Operator Lifecycle Manager
• Persistent Storage for Elasticsearch Powered by OpenShift Container Storage
• Making Persistent Storage Calls in Your Application
• Serverless Eventing with Camel K
• Serverless Camel K
• Camel Kafka Connector Basics

[cedricclyburn]

Currently, these tracks (from above) don't yet have a preset enabled:

• Getting Started with OpenShift for Developers
• Logging in to an OpenShift Cluster
• Getting Started with Quarkus
• Getting Started with Quarkus - QuickStart
• Apache Kafka with Reactive Messaging

Gonna work on making sure they all do on Git/Web, and will update once finished!