Introduction

Today, we will discuss how to use Tutor for deploying OpenEdx. OpenEdx is a platform used to deploy your courses online, it’s an Udemy like but self hosted.

Tutor is an amazing tool to get it deployed with Docker (or Kubernetes).

Installation

Tutor installation

Installation is really straightforward, a simple binary to download and you’re done !

sudo curl -L "https://github.com/overhangio/tutor/releases/download/v12.1.6/tutor-$(uname -s)_$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/tutor
sudo chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/tutor

Shamefully copied/pasted from the documentation

Really simple, no ?

Run your environnement

Now that we have Tutor installed in our environnement, we can launch our platform with the following command

tutor local quickstart

You’ll be asked some questions to change some variables :

Is it a production platform ?
Our instance name
Our contact email

For this tutorial, I’ll run a non production openedx.

iderr@iderr-VirtualBox:~$ tutor local quickstart

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        Interactive platform configuration

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Are you configuring a production platform? Type 'n' if you are just testing Tutor on your local computer [Y/n] n

As you are not running this platform in production, we automatically set the following configuration values:

    LMS_HOST = local.overhang.io

    CMS_HOST = studio.local.overhang.io

    ENABLE_HTTPS = False

Your platform name/title [My Open edX] platform1       

Your public contact email address [contact@local.overhang.io] 

The default language code for the platform [en] 

Configuration saved to /home/iderr/.local/share/tutor/config.yml

Environment generated in /home/iderr/.local/share/tutor/env

We let tutor do its job, and your environnement will be ready after seeing a text message like this

All services initialised.

The Open edX platform is now running in detached mode

Your Open edX platform is ready and can be accessed at the following urls:
    http://local.overhang.io
    http://studio.local.overhang.io

For our test, I’ll stick with defaults urls, of course, you can use yours. I’ll modify my /etc/hosts file to redirect urls in my localhost environnement

127.0.0.1	localhost local.overhang.io studio.local.overhang.io

TADA

Conclusion

Congratulations, now, we have a running OpenEdx installation ! See you next time for the configuration of OpenEdx and its customisation !

Introduction to Tutor

How to install openEdx to create your online classes