Free Hands-on Training Tonight (6:30 pm BST) - Pact Consumer Driven Contract Testing Hi Testers 👋 - this evening Grace Tree and I will be hosting the DevOps Playground Meetup in Manchester, UK and Online. After a short consumer-driven contract testing talk, we will be diving right into a hands-on lab. There is no need to install anything locally; it is set up and ready to go in the cloud ☁️. You will get a terminal; a hosted Visual Studio Code editor, and guidance on using Pact through a pre-designed scenario. If you fancy it, here is the link to sign up: https://www.meetup.com/devopsplayground/events/287778275/

What tool are you looking to run for the workshop?

The one and only Pact .NET! With the pact broker. It is very loosely based on the workshop I wrote years ago now. Mixed in with the latest one published by yourselves. https://github.com/DevOpsPlayground/Hands-on-With-PactNET Grace has done the bulk of the work (and I great job) I am presenting at the start really/helping. https://bit.ly/2QcXY08 - I just need to get the slides in the brand format... a task for today!

Nice! What's the environment you're providing for the participants to run it?

I am not directly involved with the ops bit. But the high level is a series of docker containers hosted on a cloud platform. There is a web-based front door in which attendees put in their name they get their own unique env with all the docker images prebuilt and ready to go. As a result, they get auto-generated credentials and a browser-based shell and browser-based Visual Studio Code instance with all the code and directory structures setup. The two are linked to each other. Use the terminal to run commands and the VS Code tab to make code changes. At the end of the session the instances are torn down.

Sounds great, hope it goes well - I wish you’d let us know earlier, we’d no doubt have given you a bit of a shout elsewhere. If it is something you do again, please do reach out so we can spread the word

Ah yeah sorry - our marketing team have been on the ball... but I haven't!

Hey @Thomas Shipley this sounds great. I am actually based in Leeds, and spent my early career in Manchester so still know loads of people in the tech scene there. If you are running events in the future, let me know and we can shout about it in our socials 👍 Will stick out a call to arms today

Dang! this sounds slick as all get out! And it's my birthday! Which also means I probably won't attend this evening but Dev Ops Playground looks really cool. Sorry to miss it!

Appreciate it @Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io) 🙂 - many things delayed me from putting the word out. I shall let you know next time! And if you ever fancied doing something with DevOps Playground I am sure we could work something out 👍 Thanks, @Joshua Reynolds - lots of effort is put in by the team. All the kit has been shipped down from London to run online. I just do the easy bit and talk for 20 mins 😉