So you think you're ready to start touching some code? We'll see about that...
Sign Up for Slack Account(s)
Most of the day-to-day communication happens via Slack.
Sign up for an account on https://nationaldataservice.slack.com/messages .
You can ask Sara Lambert for an invite if necessary.
Important Channels
- #general - please do not talk in general, to avoid bothering all users on the server
- #random - non work-related talk or potentially distracting content
- #development - general discussion towards NDS development
- #nebula - read-only forwarding from NCSA RocketChat about OpenStack Nebula
- #notifications - Update spam from GitHub / DockerHub / JIRA
- #alerts - NAGIOS alerts from production instances
- #standup - automated daily standup reports
Access OpenStack (aka Nebula)
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These projects build up the Docker images deployed by NDSLabs.
The NDSLabs NDS Labs spec for each service mimics that of the "Kubernetes Spec" and references the images built by the repos above:
- NDSLabs NDS Labs Service Specs: https://github.com/nds-org/ndslabs-specs
- The Kubernetes Spec: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/pods/multi-container/#the-spec-schema
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The code for the API / GUI can be found here: https://github.com/nds-org/ndslabs
Further documentation for the NDS Labs initiative can be found here:
Congratulations!
If you have made it through all of the tutorials without hurting yourself or others, then you're doing great! 
You should now have all of the information that you need to get started working on NDS Labs!
Check out the documentation for that project here: NDS Labs
Extra Credit
Useful Tutorials / Discussions:
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