Lower the barrier to getting started as quickly as possible as a developer

[krook]

Ideas:

• Should have an interactive online wsk interpreter? Similar to the Swift Sandbox?
• Neutral page linking to online OpenWhisk providers, such as Bluemix
• Orchestrate/deploy a cluster to a cloud provider
• Links to the Ansible playbooks on OpenStack (and someday Kubernetes) installs

[jthomas]

I know @mrutkows had someone working on a clone of the interactive Docker tool for OpenWhisk. https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk-tutorial

It was running at https://learnwhisk.mybluemix.net/#0 but it wasn't clear whether this was a permanent URL.

It's a brilliant tool.

[jthomas]

I think having a "Getting Started" page rather than linking straight into the open-source docs would make an easy onboarding experience.

Here’s my ideal on-boarding flow….

1. “Set Up OpenWhisk” —> Links to deployment instructions or list of providers.
2. “Set Up Developer Tools” —> Users should be given a link to the CLI binary they can install without compiling anything.
3. “Set up credentials” —> Show CLI command to set up platform properties.
4. “Hello World” example —> Simple steps to use the example listed in the docs

The Bluemix docs for the CLI are a good example steps 2 & 3 (https://console.ng.bluemix.net/openwhisk/cli).

[jlengstorf]

@jthomas I love this, and I fully agree that having some kind of interactive quickstart would be far superior to dropping someone into the docs.

I don't know how runway-ready learnwhisk.mybluemix.net is, but assuming it's usable I think putting it on learn.openwhisk.org (or something similar) would be a fantastic addition to the site.

[jlengstorf]

Most users will be interested in technical features — we need to make sure that's accessible and prominent.