Materials and Guidance for leading the exercise: Understanding the AM API using Content Centric Networking

If you are planning to lead this in a classroom, please drop a note to ​help@geni.net letting us know.

Background information about pre-requisites, tools, resources, and where to get help.

Exercise materials

• Slides (pptx​)
• Slides come in two parts:
  • ​Background Presentation covers three topics needed for the exercise (see IntroTalks for videos and a script of this material):
    • About AM API and RSpec
    • How the Jacks and omni tools use the AM API under the covers
    • Automating resource configuration with OS images, install scripts, and open source configuration management tools
  • Presentation about the exercise​ includes overview of steps and pictures of the topologies. Screenshots include Jacks/jFed.
• Worksheets for use during the exercise. Each page of these documents references a different aggregate. Make as many copies of these worksheets as you need but keep the distribution across the various aggregates.
  • InstaGENI aggregate worksheets (docx​)
• Instructions for the exercise:
  • using Jacks
  • using jFed