Recognizing Charles Carter for 500 Labs Published!
Skillable is proud to recognize our customers for the results they achieve with our platforms!
Recently, Charles Carter, Cyber Content Engineer for Comtech Telecommunications, published his 500th lab with Skillable!
To celebrate that achievement, we sat down with Charles to learn more about the labs he’s publishing and hear the advice he has for new lab developers.
Congratulations, Charles! Keep up the great work and we’ll see you again at 750 labs!
Charles Carter
Cyber Content Engineer
Comtech Telecommunications
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Three Tips for Lab Developers, from a Lab Developer
But wait – there’s more!
Charles has three tips to share with fellow Lab Developers from lessons he learned (sometimes) the hard way!
#1 – Use master versions
If you have a Virtual Machine (VM) that has an operating system (OS) you want to use in multiple places, put everything you need on that OS on that one VM and use that in as many labs as you can. Then when you have to do updates, you only have to do it in one spot.
The same is true for making Parent profiles and then making Child profiles off the Parent so you only have to edit the Parent instead of going to multiple places to make the changes.
#2 – Be intentional with your saves
Try not to save Differencing Disks too often in your VMs.
Be more intentional about changes you’re saving to the VM and when as less Differencing Disks means you have shorter load times and less launch and boot errors when launching the lab.
#3 – Use the Template Gallery
Take advantage of the Skillable Template Gallery if you’re looking for a blank OS or a certain server that already has apps installed.
Skillable has a good catalog of images you can use to help you get your lab spun up quickly with minimal issues.
Learn more about the Template Gallery here.
