API != REST - procmail to the rescue

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A web front end on Netlify sends SMTP messages to a private JupyterHub host which uses Postfix and procmail rules to parse subject/body and invoke scripts; those scripts run Ansible playbooks and shell helpers to provision per-student Jupyter notebooks, generate passwords, notify users, and later create/cleanup/reset verbs trigger teardown. The system serves four-hour workshop sessions, currently supporting about 10 workshops, deploys and cleans reliably, and queues/retries for firewalled back-end networks.

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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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