API != REST - procmail to the rescue

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A workshop-on-demand system uses an SMTP-based API instead of HTTPS: the public Netlify front-end sends emails with verbs like create/reset/cleanup, postfix receives them and procmail filters route parameters from subject/body into scripts. Those scripts run shell, Ansible playbooks and jupyterhub APIs to provision per-student environments, generate passwords, and queue cleanup after four-hour sessions. Ten workshops exist now, deployment and nightly convergence run via Ansible playbooks, and the email queueing model proves reliable for asynchronous provisioning and teardown.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:48Bruno Cornec
3. 1:35Frederic Passron
4. 3:04Workshop on Demand
5. 7:35procmail
6. 10:17infrastructure
7. 11:58demo
8. 19:03wrap up

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